Steve Smith will score huge runs after making his comeback, asserts Andrew Jones
The outgoing CEO of Cricket New South Wales Andrew Jones has stated that Steve Smith will pile on huge scores after making his comeback to the Australian team. Smith, along with David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, was banned by Cricket Australia for their involvement in ball tampering in 2018.
Steve Smith and David Warner are all set to play in the Bangladesh Premier League 2019 and will have to wait for another few months before they become eligible to play competitive cricket in Australia. In the same vein, the outgoing cricket New South Wales Cheif Executive Officer Andrew Jones has backed Smith to make a memorable comeback to cricket.
“I can’t speak for Davey as much, but I’m very confident Smith will get 1000 runs a year in Tests for another five years. The effect of this will be a refreshment break and then he’ll have a point to prove. There’s going to be a revenge mission on the bowlers for the next five years. Hopefully, Davey does the same,” ESPNcricinfo reported Jones saying.
Jones also stated that the road for Warner would be relatively tougher compared to Smith. Both Smith and Warner were banned for twelve months from any form of competitive cricket in Australia for their involvement in the ball-tampering saga in South Africa along with Cameron Bancroft, who was banned for nine months and has already served the ban.
“No, is probably the short answer, the more credit you have in the bank the easier it is and the less credit you have the harder it is. But that said, and I’ve had this discussion with Davey in 2013, we all like watching David Warner play cricket and we all just want him to make it easy for us to enjoy him as a player and a person.
“He’ll have learnt a lot through the episode, treat people as you want to be treated and things will probably work out pretty well. Everyone is happy with redemption so if he shows humility and good grace, scores lots of runs, time will do the rest,” he added.
Jones also expressed that the punishment on the players was probably on the harsher side. But added that it could work in their favour and can bring them directly into the team once they return to competitive cricket.
“The corollary of that is, they are very heavy, so once time has been served there’s no double jeopardy, the guys come straight back into the system and, on current performance, you’d think straight back into the team,” he said.
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