Aussie selector reveals brutal Steve Smith truth

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Cricket Australia's main selector George Bailey has confirmed champion batter Steve Smith is not successful the country's champion Twenty20 World Cup line-up.

The Aussies get their rubric defence underway astatine the Sydney Cricket Ground connected Friday nighttime with a blockbuster clash against New Zealand.

Smith, 33, was successful the squad that won the Cup precocious past year, but it seems helium volition beryllium 1 of 4 players from the 15-man squad to miss the chopped this clip around.

"I deliberation each the members of our 15 person a relation to play," Bailey told media connected Tuesday.

"I don't deliberation that volition beryllium starting successful the XI for Steve, but I surely deliberation should we request a relation astatine immoderate signifier from him, perfectly helium can."

Smith volition marque mode arsenic Australia's caller T20 maestro blaster Tim David is expected to marque his World Cup debut.

David, 26, has whacked scores of 54, 42, and 40 successful the past six weeks against India, West Indies, and England aft being called into Australia's nationalist set-up.

Smith is considered 1 of the top batters of the modern era, and boasts an unthinkable Test mean of 60.00 portion besides averaging 44.13 successful one-day internationals and 25.74 successful planetary Twenty20 games.

But his cards are present marked arsenic Australia looks toward the adjacent procreation of white-ball batters who tin people rapidly and bludgeon absorption attacks into submission.

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Just past week Aussie cricket large Michael Clarke blasted selectors for leaving Smith connected the outer successful pre-World Cup games against England.

"Steve Smith tin unfastened the batting successful T20 cricket. He's successful the squad, he's a large accidental of playing successful this World Cup truthful surely you request him batting, making runs (and) successful form," Clarke told Big Sports Breakfast radio.

"My crushed ever for (including) idiosyncratic similar a Steve Smith successful your squad is due to the fact that not each conditions are the same.

"If we suffer 2 for not many, you've got 1 of the world's champion batsmen coming in."

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