Steve Smith’s status looks to be fit to play but definitely not 100 per cent as Pat Cummins flagged on match eve. He warmed up in the Newlands nets with a heat patch on his neck, providing some idea of the discomfort and tightness he is still feeling there.
Cummins also had this to say about Smith’s tour and attitude.
“In the last couple of years, probably particularly the last 12 months, it feels like he’s in a really good place, and he’s enjoying his cricket, and he’s getting himself out, and whether it was playing golf or going for coffee club every morning with Marnus and Kez and a few of the guys. So I think he’s in a really good place,” Cummins said.
“That knock on in the first Test, I think it knocked him around for a couple of hours, but then straight away next morning he was back to his normal self and out there. So don’t really want to speak for him because it’s probably only he who can answer that.
“But from all my conversations, he’s been great. He’s been super invested in what’s going on. Very helpful for me out there in the middle. So yeah, he’s been good.”
