Steve Smith is “like a PC” when he is batting, Steve Waugh said after the Australia star scored another Ashes century.
Smith made his second century of the principal Test against England at Edgbaston, putting the sightseers in a triumphant position on day four on Sunday.
The right-hander, playing his first Test since his ball-altering boycott, made 142 in the subsequent innings, having safeguarded his group with 144 in the first.
Smith turned into the principal Australian to score two centuries in a similar Test in England since Waugh in 1997.
Waugh, a coach with the Australia group in England, praised Smith’s methodology and said the 30-year-old appeared to have answers for whatever restriction sides tossed at him.
“His readiness is stunning. He’s intensive, he hits a greater number of balls than I’ve at any point seen anybody [hit],” previous Australia chief Waugh revealed to Channel Nine on Sunday.
“When he goes out to bat it’s practically similar to he’s in a stupor like state. He knows precisely what he needs to do.
“He knows the resistance, what they’re attempting to do, how they’re attempting to get him out and he appears to have a response for everything.
“He’s an extraordinary player. I don’t think I’ve at any point seen anybody very like him and his hunger for runs is top notch. His strategy is astonishing, it’s special, however he realizes what he’s doing, he realizes how to score runs.
“It resembles he examinations each ball, and it resembles a PC – he releases the appropriate response.”
Britain will continue day five at 13-0, requiring another 385 keeps running for triumph in a Test they are more probable set to hope to spare.
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