Steve Smith On England : Australia stand-in captain Steve Smith expressed sympathy towards Ben Stokes’s led team, who are facing a lot of criticism after their poor show in the ongoing Ashes 2025. In the recently concluded first three tests, England lost the game, and with that, Australia took a lead of 3-0 in the series.
Steve Smith On England
Smith will now be rejoining the Australian team for the fourth Boxing Day test and will continue as stand-in captain in place of Pat Cummins. As of now, Australia has already clinched the series to their name, and when Smith was asked if he had any sympathy for the England team, which is under pressure, he had a very different view on that.
“When you’re losing, the spotlight is always on you”: Steve Smith
Smith said,
“When you’re losing, the spotlight is always on you, and things can get spoken about and get blown up pretty heavily. So, I feel for them, in a way. It can be tricky. You’re in a country where you know you can go out and about and enjoy yourselves, and with big breaks, you know, you’ve got to experience the country that you’re in as well. And they had a pretty big break in between.”
Further, Steve Smith said,
“Sometimes I think you’ve just got to—and I heard a few of the comments—but you have got to get away from the game and try and put it out of your mind and just relax for a little bit too. And I can see that’s the kind of path that they wanted to go down, and I think it’s fair enough.”
“I can’t really comment more than that on how they’re feeling or how they’re going about things, but, yeah, I certainly believe that when you’ve lost two test matches and you’ve got such a long break, sometimes you just need to get away from the game and switch off entirely.”
