Steve Smith may be batting like Don Bradman, but England must remember - against all odds - that he is mortal, says Jonathan Agnew.
Watch day three's best moments as first Test evenly poisedThe finest minds in cricket have been trying to find the answer to this particular question for years, and the finest minds are still looking rather red-faced and embarrassed.
Curiously, for all the time I spent in the same Leicestershire team as David Gower, only once did I stand at the non-striker's end with David at the business end. It's like billiards played at 90mph, all angles and caroms and being three shots ahead of the poor, perspiring field. It is horrible for the bowler and it produces agonies for the opposition captain, for how do you set a field to a man who knows how to bypass every field you set?Of course, Smith looks strange at the crease. His movement across his stumps is almost unprecedented at this level. Combined with the twitching, and the grabbing at his pads, he can look like a cat on a hot tin roof.
But if you did that he wouldn't make the big step across. He would adjust with all that time he has and put the ball into the gaps that you have had to leave to put those men in the funky spots.
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