Having started his career as a leg spinner and a tail-ender in international cricket, Steve Smith rode on his consistency to become the number one Test batsman in ICC Rankings. He made his debut against Pakistan in 2010 at the 'Mecca of Cricket' Lord's. It was a disastrous debut for the former Australian skipper as he scored 1 and 12 runs in successive innings, though he was decent with the bowl as he picked up three wickets in second innings while he did not get chance to ball in the first innings. He marked his name in international cricket in 2013 Ashes, where he scored his first Test century at Oval. Despite having an unorthodox batting stance, Smith suddenly started dominating Test cricket as he has the ability to play both fast and spin bowlers. The 2014-2015 series against India was the path-breaking series for the Aussie as he scored four centuries. It was in the same summer when he was appointed as Australia's 45th Test captain in place of injured Michael Clarke. Everything was going right for the right-handed batsman but suddenly life took a U-turn and he got involved in the ball-tampering scandal with his two Australia teammates David Warner and Cameron Bancroft. The scandal, which rocked the cricket world, happened during a Test match against South Africa. Smith and Warner are suspended for One year while the young fast bowler Bancroft is suspended for nine months.
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After Royals spinners stifled Chennai Super Kings to stop them at 125 for five, Buttler came up with an unbeaten 70-run knock off just 48 balls to lead his side to a comfortable seven-wicket IPL win on Monday night.
On Buttler's incredible innings, Smith said that the wicketkeeper-batsman took the pressure off him at the other hand.
With the win, only their fourth in the season after 10 games, Rajasthan take the fifth spot in the points table, pushing Chennai Super Kings once again to the bottom end.
CSK made two changes, but Imran Tahir remains on the sidelines. Josh Hazlewood has been picked as Dwayne Bravo's replacement while Piyush Chawla replaced Sam Curran.
The Royals slumped to another defeat despite being in a favourable position before AB de Villiers whirlwind of an innings took the game away from them.
Returning back to his old spot, AB de Villiers showed the muggles his wizardry once again, smashing 41 off 11 balls in the final four overs to steer Royal Challengers Bangalore to a seven-wicket win against the Royals.
Smith played one of his best innings since the two half-centuries he scored at the start of IPL 2020, to revive the Royals in their Dubai tie against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday.
Rajasthan Royals fell short by 13 runs against Delhi Capitals as the side faced its fifth defeat in IPL 2020.
Delhi only made one change for the evening - Tushar Deshpande will make his debut, replacing Harshal Patel. Rajasthan did not make any changes to their playing XI
The Oz batsman says he is considerably pleased with RR’s bowling against Delhi Capitals on Friday but hopes the batting clicks against SRH on Sunday.
Steve Smith-led Rajasthan Royals slump to their fourth loss on the trot in IPL 2020 after Delhi Capitals humble them with a 46-run win in Sharjah.
Andrew Tye, along with Varun Aaron, walks in the line-up for Rajasthan Royals while DC skipper Shreyas Iyer makes no change in the line-up.
Steve Smith has been fined Rs 12 lakh for slow over-rate during the match against Mumbai Indians on Tuesday.
The RR skipper reveals if their star English all-rounder will be out of quarantine for team’s next match against Delhi Capitals this Saturday.
Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma makes no changes in the line-up while Rajasthan Royals drop Jaydev Unadkat for debutant right-arm pacer Kartik Tyagi.
Neither side have the upper edge against the other side in the head-to-head tie as both have won 10 matches each in 20 IPL meetings. However, Rajasthan Royals have beaten Mumbai Indians in their last four matches.
RR reached 154/6 wickets in 20 overs, thanks to No.5 Mahipal Lomror's 47, after their top three batsmen -- Jos Buttler, Smith, and Sanju Samson -- were blown away in the first five overs.
Rajasthan Royals made only one change - Mahipal Lomror replaces Ankit Rajpoot - as against an unchanged RCB in Abu Dhabi.
RCB vs RR, IPL 2020 | Both sides head into the first afternoon game of IPL 2020 with two wins and a defeat.
Rajasthan Royals captain Steve Smith said that the team "probably didn't adapt to the dimensions and the wicket".
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