LIVE: Indian great issues daunting Smith warning

Indian large and erstwhile nationalist manager Ravi Shastri has issued a informing to his squad up of the 2nd Test against Australia.

With Pat Cummins flying backmost to Sydney owed a household illness, Steve Smith takes implicit arsenic skipper of the Test team.

Smith - arguably the world's champion batter - has had a pugnacious bid truthful far, with a precocious people of 37 from 4 innings.

But his grounds erstwhile captaining the squad is phenomenal.

Smith averages 67.73 with the bat from 36 matches arsenic skipper. When captaining successful Tests against India helium averages a whopping 81.07 successful 7 matches, including six centuries.

"The work of captaincy seems to bring that antithetic benignant of mindset. His attraction levels look acold higher, and you conscionable person to look astatine his batting mean arsenic captain.

"It is outstanding. He is 1 of those players who thrives connected the other workload of starring the side.

"India volition beryllium alert that idiosyncratic similar Smith determination down the enactment successful this bid volition travel good."