{"id":4287,"date":"2022-08-30T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=242071"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:33:59","slug":"i-feel-like-when-im-playing-good-t20-cricket-im-in-that-team-for-sure-steve-smith-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-feel-like-when-im-playing-good-t20-cricket-im-in-that-team-for-sure-steve-smith-opens-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel like when I\u2019m playing good T20 cricket, I\u2019m in that team for sure,\u201d Steve Smith opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">Steve Smith stated that he has moved away from being the side\u2019s rock and is prepared to play with more freedom in the shortest format as the T20 World Cup approaches. The T20 World Cup that was played in the UAE last year resulted in Smith having a below average strike rate of 97.18 His career strike rate is 125.78, incidentally. In light of Tim David\u2019s power-hitting prowess and Mitchell Marsh\u2019s success at the number 3 spot, Smith\u2019s position in the shortest format has come under attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cI feel like when I\u2019m playing good T20 cricket, I\u2019m in that team for sure,\u201d Smith told reporters at Townsville\u2019s Riverway Stadium. \u201cThe role that I\u2019ve been given the last couple of years is the \u2018Mr. Fix It\u2019 role and that tag\u2019s been taken away from me now.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\u201cFor the Sri Lanka tour, and I felt like I could go out and just play with a lot more freedom and naturally and not have any kind of hesitation in the back of my mind. I can just take the game on and if I want to smack someone for six first ball, then I\u2019m able to do that freely,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith stated that he has moved away from being the side\u2019s rock and is prepared to play with more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[349,1086],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-steve-smith","tag-t20-world-cup"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}