India won the semifinal against Australia in ICC Champions Trophy 2025, following which Steve Smith expressed his disappointment on losing the match. Steve Smith was batting at 73 in the 37th over but he missed a full toss by Mohammed Shami and his off-stump was rattled. After Smith was dismissed, Australia could only get 66 runs off 75 balls available to them.
Smith expressed his regret on getting out and said, “I missed a full toss. It wasn’t ideal.”
Smith Disappointed After His Dismissal
“My plan was to try and put the seamers under a bit more pressure, and just rotate the spin,” Smith said after the match. “But I didn’t do it very well. I lost my wicket at probably a crucial stage. Had I batted a little deeper, we could have potentially got up to near 300 or something. Alex was batting really nicely at the other end. It was a disappointing time to get out, but that’s the game sometimes.”
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Missed Opportunity To Post A Target Above 300
“I think we had our opportunities throughout to post something up above 300,” Smith said. “We were probably just that one wicket down too many, at a few stages throughout the innings. If we extended one of those partnerships a little bit we’re probably getting up to 290 to 300 and we’re putting a bit of pressure on the scoreboard.
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Australia Lacked Couple Of Partnerships
“The square block as a whole, I think, has seen a lot of cricket over the last couple of months. We can see it’s pretty tired and that’s probably the reason why we haven’t seen a score above 300 in the tournament here. So far so we did a reasonable job, but we probably just lacked a couple of those partnerships just dragging out a little bit further.”
“I think when you’re trying to squeeze the game and you’re trying to build a lot of pressure, you need to take those chances when you’ve got 260 on the board,” Smith said. “But that’s the game, it happens. No one means to drop a catch. It’s part of the game.”
