Usman Khawaja calls Sydney wicket a ‘stinker’, Steve Smith says it ‘was toughest SCG pitch I’ve played on’
Usman Khawaja might have ended up on the right side of the result, and Pat Cummins declared the veteran opener would be persisted with later. But it didn’t stop the Aussie opener from speaking his mind about the surface and the tension it wrecked inside him. He called the wicket a ‘stinker’ that had kept him on knife’s edge. “I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t want to talk about it too much beforehand, but the wicket was a stinker,” Khawaja told ABC Grandstand post the BGT reclaiming after a 3-1 win. “It wasn’t like a traditional SCG wicket with the new grass on it, there’s cracks all over it, it’s been tough batting, the scoreboard will tell you that. Thankfully we were on the right side of the win but when it’s a wicket like that you’re always on a knife edge,” he added to ABC. Steve Smith went a step further to dissect the vile strands of the wicket, after chucklingly admitting he had been shredded – at 9999 career runs, at that. “I …
