Star Australia batter Steve Smith isn’t too concerned about opening against India in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Notably, Smith began opening the innings in the series against West Indies after David Warner’s retirement. The 35-year-old didn’t have a memorable beginning at the top of the order registering scores of 12, 11* and 6 in his first three innings.

However, he finally shut his critics in the second Test against West Indies scoring a phenomenal 91* (146) with the help of nine fours and a six. Although the knock couldn’t help Australia get over the line, Smith managed to prove that he can bat anywhere in his favourite format.

As Australia prepare themselves for the all-important upcoming five-match series against India, Smith was asked whether he’s keen to open the innings against the Asian giants. The batting maestro said that he isn’t too fussed about it and will bat wherever the team asks him to.

“You’ll have to ask the men in charge but I’m not fussed either way. Some challenging conditions with the new ball, in particular. So I would have liked to score a few more runs. That’s the game sometimes but I played pretty well in the second innings at the Gabba where we couldn’t get over the line, unfortunately. It’s just a position to me so it doesn’t really faze me too much,” Smith was quoted as saying by Code Sports.

Smit opens up on T20I exclusion

Smith has a stellar record in Test cricket having 9685 runs to his name at an average of 56.97 with 32 hundreds. The batting stalwart also enjoys batting against India having scored 2042 runs against them at an average of 65.87 with nine hundreds and five fifties.

Further speaking ahead, Smith talked about his absence from the T20 World Cup squad saying with he was disappointed to have not made it to the squad.

“I don’t know about international T20 stuff. You’ll have to ask the selectors there. I was disappointed not to be in the World Cup but that’s the way things go. They wanted all the big hitters. I’d love to be part of the IPL again, for sure. I’ll be putting my name in the hat so just have to keep scoring runs. You never know, we’ll see what happens,” he added.