SK Flashback: Steve Smith bats India out of the 2015 World Cup

#2 Steve Smith scores his fourth ODI century

Steve Smith’s century took the match away from the Indians

Steve Smith carried on from that Yadav over, using it as a trampoline to power his team’s trajectory towards the sky. He partnered with Aaron Finch and the two batsmen scored 182 runs for the second wicket. There was no stopping Smith, who with 11 boundaries and two sixes, got the better of every Indian bowler.

He reached his century in 89 balls, leaping across the nervous nineties with a four and a six. Another boundary followed immediately after. He was looking to push into an even higher gear but it was Yadav who got him at an individual score of 105.

The Indian bowler finally got a bouncer up at Smith’s helmet who top-edged it to Rohit Sharma on the boundary at square leg with Australia just three runs short of 200. A miracle would have been needed for India to pull the match back and sadly, that wasn’t a day for miracles.