IMAGINE THINKING ROOT IS BETTER THAN SMITH.
Joe Root just hit 160. Great. He’s tied with Ponting at 41 tons. Fantastic. But let’s be real: Root is playing a different game than Steve Smith. 🙄
While Root spent the last two years racking up hundreds on flat tracks to fix his stats, Smith just walked into the SCG and:
• Passed Sir Don Bradman for the most runs ever scored against England (5,085!).
• Passed Jack Hobbs to become the #2 Ashes run-scorer of all time.
• Hit his 37th century in fewer innings than Sachin Tendulkar.
Root is a master of volume, but Smith is the master of destruction. Root scores runs when the sun is out; Smith scores runs to break English hearts and rewrite the history books. 🇦🇺
You can keep your "consistent accumulation." I’ll take the man who only has the Don left to catch.
Smith > Root. It’s not a debate anymore; it’s a fact.
Loved today but need to sort the keeper situation out. The lad is absolutely pony! Says it all when Shef W dropped him last season. Why are we developing another clubs keeper? #bcfc