Steve Smith fears mental health as cricket star says he is ‘very, very angry’

Australian cricket star for Test Captain Steve Smith’s mental health fears about the weight of another ‘fake’ scandal.

Pictures of Smith, 31, at the batting scout appeared scrubbing the pitch on the final day of the third Test in Sydney last week – almost two years after he was sent off over the infamous 2018 member event in South Africa.

Smith said he was ‘shocked and disappointed by the reaction’ of fans and commentators insisting he had no intention of deceiving him.

Shane Lee, 47, told the Afternoon Sport podcast that the best bat in the world looked ‘awful, terribly angry’ right now.

Steve Smith got a wonderful hundred in Sydney and how he dealt after that, I thought, there is a lot of anger there. He’s upset, ‘he said.

The brother of Australia’s top fast bowler, Brett Lee, said Smith was carrying the same scandal that was immediately troubling and that was a cause for concern.

‘You go on to this test: I see the same signs [as before Sandpapergate]. I see someone like Smith getting really, really angry, ‘he said.

‘I feel very worried about this boy.

‘I really want Cricket Australia, or someone within that organization to make sure this guy is okay. Because he is a bat hero and not a cheater.

‘We really need to look after these people from a mental health perspective. ‘

The Fourth Test between Indians and Australia took place in Brisbane on Friday with Smith caught out on the sidelines for just 36 runs after a grueling start with the Australians.

Days before, Smith had tried to explain that he had not tried to damage the pitch or scratch the batting logo at the end of the previous Test.

‘It’s something I do to show where we are bowling,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.

‘It’s something I do to see how the batter plays our archers and then out of use I always mark a middle.

‘We are ashamed that this and other events have taken away from the performance of a good batting by India. ‘

While Paine and coach Justin Langer backed Smith, the Australian star was criticized by international players.

‘With all the cameras around these days, and Smith’s history with the sandpaper, you have to conclude that he can’t have two brain cells to touch each other,’ wrote the great David Lloyd of England. .

‘What was he thinking – was he thinking anything at all?

Indian opener Virender Sehwag and former England captain Michael Vaughan slammed Smith saying what he did was ‘simple deception’.

But a video emerged showing the crucial moments before the cricket appeared with a spitting spike over Rishabh Pant’s Indian battery guard.

In the video, posted to Twitter, two SCG ground workers walk around the area, sweeping it with a hard broom and repainting the batting logo before Smith arrives.

It’s hard to see how Pant’s guard would have been visible when Smith arrived and marked the middle.

The full film was not shown live in Australia but was seen live in an international broadcast of the third Critical Test game in the series.

Fox chose not to show ground workers rubbing in the area, just pictures of Smith scratching the crest with his shoe.

As a result of the 2018 ball blocking scandal Smith was removed from his captain and banned for a year after Australia rubbed the ball with sandpaper to take advantage of a tour of South Africa.

After the scandal that left the Australian dressing room in tattoos and for the past two years newly recruited captain Tim Paine and the squad have been trying to regain the respect of cricket fans at home and abroad.