MELBOURNE – February 14 (ONLINE): Australia’s Steve Smith was ruled of remaining home series against Australia with concussion after landing heavily as he made a spectacular attempt to take a catch.
During Sunday’s T20I fixture between Sri Lanka and Australia, the Ausie’s star batsman made an astonishing effort on the boundary-line to save a six from Sri Lanka’s Maheesh Theekshana.
Smith remained limping on ground before medical aid arrived and six was given, which caused the match to end in a tie, which was later decided through a super over. Smith’s team won the match and took an inaccessible 2-0 lead in the series.
“Steve Smith has concussion, will be subject to low level protocols for the next few days and full recovery (is expected) in 6-7 days,” Cricket Australia said in a statement, adding that no replacement would be brought into the squad.
“He will miss the remainder of the series against Sri Lanka.”
Australia are due to leave for a tour of Pakistan later this month and Smith took to Twitter to assure people he was all right.
“My head has felt better but I will be ok,” he said.
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