Watch: Steve Smith smashes ball slipped out of Dale Steyn’s hand, gets booed

Australia’s tour of South Africa have started in Bullring with the first of the three T20I’s. South Africa takes on Australia for three T20Is and three ODIs. When the last time these two sides met, there there was no short of entertainment. Banters, abuses, Sandpaper gate, the series had it all. Things have started to heat up in this series as well with Steve Smith hitting a dead ball to the boundary of Dale Steyn’s bowling only to get booed by the South African fans.

Smith hits a dead ball

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It all happened during the fourth ball of the third over. The ball slipped out of Dale Steyn‘s hand as he gets to the delivery stride before finishing his run-up. It was deemed dead ball straight away. However Smith danced down the track and lofted it over mid-on. It was called a dead ball by the umpire. This outrageous hitting of a dead ball by Smith was received with huge boos from the South African fans. It is the first South African tour for Steve Smith and David Warner after the famous Sandpaper gate incident.

Aussies posts a decent total

Despite losing Warner in the very first over of the match, Australia got off to a terrific start scoring 70 runs in the powerplay. Finch and Smith capitalized on the loose deliveries bowled by both of the South African seamers Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi. The Chinaman bowler Shamsi curtailed the flow of runs in the middle overs and brought the match in South Africa’s control. He bowled four overs for just 31 runs and took two wickets at crucial intervals even though he gave away so many extras. However keeper Alex Carey once again played a smart innings and stitched a half century partnership with Mitchell Marsh and set the stage up for Ashton Agar to finish things of at the end, taking Aussies to a formidable total of 196.

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