Australian batting spearhead Steve Smith is widely regarded by his peers, rivals and the cricket fraternity at large as the best batsman in the longer format of the game. Smith's staggering consistency to score runs iver a considerable time frame across different conditions against top quality oppositions have earned him the respect and admiration of both his team mates and opponents.

While the best with the red cherry find it hard to scalp the unorthodox strokemaker's wicket, former Pakistani speedster Shoaib Akhtar presented a humorous angle with a different take.. Akhtar turned quite a few heads by making a cheeky claim that he could dismiss the Aussies batting great by setting him with amcouple of bouncers and that too even after retirement.

Shoaib Akhtar was responding to a tweet from a prominent news portal which pitched players of different generation against each other and asked the fans to pick their favourite duel battle. Incidentally, Shoaib Akhtar was drawn against Steve Smith but he probably found the match up amusing rather than serious as he tweeted that it would take him just four balls to dismiss the Aussie batting great.


Smith who served a year-plus ban from international cricket after being involved with David Warner in controversial Sandpaper ball tampering controversy in the Cape Town test against South Africa, further build on his reputation as the best Test batsman with a stellar performance in his comeback Ashes series.

Despite returning to Test cricket after more than a year, the right-handed batsman scored a staggering 774 runs in just 7 innings, laced with three centuries and as many fifties.