Brexit benefits may seem few and far between but one upshot, cricket-wise, has been the decision to allow a second overseas player in the County Championship. At New Road on Friday this meant a chance to watch two modern-day greats batting together and though one fell for a middling 30, the other peeled off a classical century.
Steve Smith was the former, his first outing with the bat for Sussex in this short pre-Ashes stint lasting 80 minutes before he was adjudged lbw to Worcestershire’s Josh Tongue. It looked to be a bail-trimmer at best, Smith struck above the knee roll by the right-armer. But without DRS at his disposal, Australia’s best-since-Bradman could only wrinkle his nose before clanking back up the metal steps of the Graeme Hick pavilion.
