Reasons for England's humiliating display at Ashes 2017-2018

4. Smith's Power Packed Performances

Steve Smith is the main protagonist in Australia's dominance of the present Ashes series. He has led his side from the front. His splendid batting display in the year 2017 has been the talk of the town.

Every time in the series England bowlers started building pressure, Smith denied them with aplomb. With 604 runs in 6 innings at an astonishing average of 151.00 - 3 tons (including a double hundred) in the process - he has ruled the cricketing charts. He became the first Aussie skipper and only the 2nd batsman after the great Sir Don Bradman to score 3 or more centuries in Ashes.

In the 11 test matches he played in 2017, he scored 1305 runs in 20 innings at a splendid average of 76.76 which includes 6 centuries and 3 fifties. He is the 3rd quickest to 23 test tons behind "Bradman" and "Sunil Gavaskar".