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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Barney Ronay at Sydney Cricket Ground

Anatomy of an Ashes brain-fade: Jamie Smith and the shot heard around the world

England's Jamie Smith lofts a shot and is caught off the bowling of Marnus Labuschagne on day two of the fifth Ashes Test.
England's Jamie Smith is dismissed by Marnus Labuschagne, a rare moment when elite sport suddenly falls apart. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

No doubt someone, somewhere, in some fevered corner of the internet will come up with a counter view. If the universe of cricketing hot takes really is infinite, then logically there must be a feed, a page, a platform where a voice is saying, Jamie Smith and The Shot: on second thoughts.

You might think this was a bad shot, perhaps even the Worst Shot. You might think all surviving footage of the shot should be pixelated in the interests of public safety, classified as a hate crime, scrubbed from the internet under the right to forget.

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