Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[laj]

Smith is a conundrum, he fights so hard for his team when batting, then shoots it in the foot with his in-field tactics.

Lyon was bowling like a man possessed, there were four overs left in the day, so Smith took the new ball and removed Lyon from the attack. It's perplexing, it'd be like removing Lillee from the attack when he need one more wicket for the record!

It's almost like he doesn't want Lyon out there.

The ball was pretty dead. At some point you have to change the ball. Within 10 overs Lyon will have a much better ball to bowl with. The taking of new ball should have been vindicated but Renshaw dropped a soda off Cummins, which could be vital.