Steve Smith batted as if he had never been away in scoring a century against England - but will he be able to move on from the ball-tampering scandal?
Highlights: Smith hits century as Australia beat England in warm-upThe tune? Flicks, clips, fifties and hundreds, all marked by raucous boos.
Even sprinting past partner Aaron Finch to get on first could not dampen the barrage of boos. But Warner soon settled, not quite with the fluency he showed in this year's Indian Premier League , but still cracking five fours around the ground. Smith, deemed the next Donald Bradman down under, robbed himself of a year of his prime and his stellar career will have an asterisk in indelible ink - thousands upon thousands of runs, but it should have been several thousand more.
The Smith that returned on Saturday looked renewed, back to the monastic batsman who eschews all temptation and grinds down bowlers. It took a contentious caught and bowled decision to remove him. A lot of it is tongue in cheek - the man dressed as a ball with a sandpaper hat on throwing a bit of sandpaper towards Glenn Maxwell for the fielder to sign, only to drop two yards short.
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