IPL 2019 | Twitter divided as Steve Smith plays Test innings to save Rajasthan Royals from embarrasment
After Rajasthan Royals lost the wicket of Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith and Jos Buttler went into defensive mode and took RR to a decent total of 139. Some Twitterati were very critical of Steve Smith's slow innings whereas some applauded the calm innings in a pitch which is difficult to bat on.
Some made fun of Smith's slowly paced innings!
#RRvKKR
— NaMo (Nayan Mongia ) (@Original_Namo) April 7, 2019
Steve Smith has made a great comeback to Test cricket
He does make a point!
I don't understand the hype Steve Smith gets as a T20 batsman. He has poor numbers in both T20Is and IPL and yet manages to play one-down for RR as an overseas batsman, ahead of some better alternatives! #RRvKKR
— JeepersCreepers (@raj33191) April 7, 2019
Cricket fans while watching Steve Smith's innings!
Steve Smith 38 (37) pic.twitter.com/ZWf7bLGpDc
— Samir Bhatia (@SamirBhatia8) April 7, 2019
Don't worry RR fans! Steve Smith has got this!
Don’t worry RR fans. #SteveSmith will play through and draw this match for us.
— Chethan (@ImChethan43) April 7, 2019
The real problem for RR!
Steve Smith's laboured innings of 62 * not out of 53 balls ,is not upto T20 standards, and because of he not accelerating, could be the reason RR lose the match .RR needs minimum 155 on this wicket. Stokes also can't score from ball 1. RR miss powerful strikers.
— Rishabh Wadhwa (@23881b46ea74416) April 7, 2019
Test match*
Someone remind #SteveSmith that it's a T-20 match and not ODI !#RRvKKR
— Divyanshu Karn (@karndivyanshu1) April 7, 2019
Justin Langer will be a happy man after watching Steve Smith today! :P
Don't know abt WC but Steve Smith surely gonna make it to the Ashes team #RRvKKR
— sruthin (@sruthin__k) April 7, 2019
But they were some who were happy to see him score a 50!
Finally ! A moment I had been waiting for since the start of the IPL... A fifty for Steve Smith 💃 Carry on and Make it count Stevey! #RRvKKR @cricketcomau hope you watching!!
— Swetha Harini (@Swez_S) April 7, 2019
Some fans were just happy to watch him bat!
Watching Steve Smith bat after ages.
— Aditi Verma (@aditi0703) April 7, 2019
One down, how many more to go?
Steve Smith scores his first IPL fifty of the season! #IPL2019 #RRvKKR #BadaHogaRupaiyaa
— Vikash Singh (@S21Nawab_) April 7, 2019
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Anything can happen! RR wouldn't have reached this total if not for Smith!
Steve Smith played a beautiful innings, considering the pitch condition this 139 might be enough, Yesterday Mumbai defended 136
— Abhijeet ♞ (@TheYorkerBall) April 7, 2019