What a shot to get there as properly, a wonderful push to cowl, beautiful switch of weight and he is creamed it to the boundary.
It is his second Lord’s century, twelfth towards England.
He is obtained there off 169 balls.
“There was one thing inevitable about that,” BBC commentator Simon Mann says.
“England weren’t budging Steve Smith. One of many greats turns it on once more at Lord’s.”
It is his thirty second Take a look at century as properly – and he is the quickest Take a look at cricketer to succeed in that specific milestone.
“Yesterday Smith got here out immediately on prime and what a strategy to carry up three figures, an attractive cowl drive,” Michael Vaughan says.
And to observe up he is helicopter clipped one other one to the rope via midwicket. Elegant stuff from this technology’s biggest exponent of the batting craft.
No run off the final.
And Smith calls for a change of gloves and a drink, 11 minutes earlier than drinks, between overs.
