Australia's Steve Smith will warm-up for 2023 Ashes series with stint at Sussex

1 year ago 45
Steve SmithSmith scored 3 hundreds successful 7 innings successful the past Ashes bid successful England successful 2019

Australia batter Steve Smith volition lukewarm up for this summer's Ashes with a stint astatine Sussex successful the County Championship.

Smith, 33, volition beryllium disposable for 3 matches earlier the archetypal Ashes Test begins astatine Edgbaston connected 16 June.

Australia could besides suffice for the World Test Championship last astatine The Kia Oval earlier that month.

Smith, who had a spell playing T20 for Worcestershire successful 2010, scored 774 runs astatine an mean of 110.57 successful the past Ashes bid successful England successful 2019.

The erstwhile Australia skipper has scored six centuries successful 16 Tests successful the UK.

Currently 2nd successful the International Cricket Council's ranking of Test batters, Smith averages 60.89 crossed his 92 Test matches.

He could diagnostic for Sussex successful Division Two matches distant against Worcestershire and Leicestershire, opening connected 4 and 11 May respectively, earlier a location lucifer against Glamorgan, which starts connected 18 May.

"To person arguably the world's champion batter play for Sussex conscionable earlier an eagerly-awaited Ashes Test bid is large for america and the County Championship," Sussex main enforcement Rob Andrew said.

"Our Championship signifier has not been bully capable for a fig of years, and nether the caller absorption of caput manager Paul Farbrace, we are looking to beryllium affirmative and ambitious.

"Being capable to pull a subordinate of Steve Smith's calibre is simply a monolithic connection and volition beryllium of large payment to our young homegrown players, peculiarly our harvest of talented young batters."

More to follow.

Across the BBC banner

Across the BBC footer

Read Entire Article