Australia batter Steve Smith passes the 10,000-run mark in Test cricket during the first day of his side's opening match in ...

Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting. Smith missed a year from the game when he was banned for 12 months after being part of the sandpaper ball-tampering scandal in a 2018 Test match against South Africa.

Steve Smith has opened up on rising Australian sensation ... a nasty sledge from Indian legend Virat Kohli, who mocked his sandpaper ban at the SCG earlier this month after Smith was left stranded ...

IMAGE: Steve Smith will lead a 16-member squad to the sub-continent for the two-Test series. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters Australia skipper for the Sri Lankan Test series, Steve Smith is not ...

You would not have tipped it seven long years ago when banned by Cricket Australia for two years after the Sandpapergate scandal – but Steve Smith’s redemption story is almost complete.

No one thought Steve Smith would return to the captaincy after the Sandpapergate scandal. Well here he is, seven years later taking the reins from Pat Cummins – who is likely to be absent for ...