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Australian talisman Steven Smith sets his eye on playing in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. “I’d like to play the Olympics, I reckon that would be cool,” Smith said.
Cricket will make its comeback into the Olympic fold at the Los Angeles Games in 2028 after an absence of over a century. Cricket was last played at the Olympics in Paris 1900, when just two teams competed: France and Great Britain. The two played a Test match over two days, fielding 12 players on each side. While the match was never given the status of a first-class game, Great Britain won the contest.
Back-to-back games get you in sync
The 35-year-old Smith scored a blistering ton in the Big Bash League coming in as an opener on Saturday. “We’ll see how far I go in terms of long-form cricket. But I am going to play short-form cricket for a while I think when I do finish. You never know. There are a lot of good young kids who are smacking the ball out of the park,” Smith said as quoted by ESPNcriricinfo.
The star batter did look out of sorts in the early part of the recently concluded Border Gavaskar Trophy however, he slammed back to back to tons in Brisbane and Melbourne and as the tour went on he looked in fine touch.
“I find the more I play back-to-back games you get in sync with the game,” Smith said. “Even [Saturday] I don’t think I played my first 10 balls really well. I was probably going a bit too hard for how the wicket was playing.
“But if I am playing T20s regularly, I probably come out with a slightly different mindset at the start, give myself a bit more time. It’s just the gears and going up and down in the gears throughout the innings [that change for T20s]. And just playing the percentages,” he concluded.
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