Steve Smith Nick Controversy: A major controversy has surfaced on the first day of the first Test match between Australia and Bangladesh at the Darwin ground. Bangladesh bowled out the Australian team for just 198 runs in 53 overs on the first day of the match on Thursday. Veteran batsman Steve Smith’s half-century of 71 runs from Australia helped the team to get close to 200 runs. He scored these runs in 190 balls with the help of 7 fours and 1 six. However, there was an incident during the match where Steve Smith himself admitted that technology saved him, otherwise he would have got out very cheaply.

What happened in the 21st over? Smith started walking towards the pavilion

The incident took place in the 21st over bowled by Ibadat Hussain. At that time Steve Smith was batting on a personal score of just 7 runs. Ibadat’s ball went over the fifth stump line, which Smith tried to play and then dropped. The ball went straight into the gloves of wicketkeeper Liton Das. Bangladesh made a strong appeal for out but umpire Kumar Dharmasena gave not out.

Bangladesh immediately took a review (DRS) to the third umpire. Even Steve Smith felt that the ball had gone past his bat, so he started walking towards the pavilion as well. But the real-time Snicko showed no spike as the ball passed the bat, causing the review to fail and Smith not out.

‘Sometimes technology has an advantage’ – Smith admits

When asked about the incident in a press conference after the first day’s play, Smith admitted that the ball had touched the bat. “I think yes, I was lucky. Sometimes you get the benefit of it. I definitely felt something. If I had been given out I would have gone to the pavilion. But today technology saved me,” said Smith.

On the other hand, after this video of Smith on social media, fans protested heavily and claimed that Bangladesh had been treated unfairly and unfairly.

Hasan Mahmood’s 6 wickets, strong start for Bangladesh

Bangladesh fast bowler Hasan Mahmood played an important role in wrapping up Australia for 198 runs. He took 6 wickets for 55 runs, including the wicket of Steve Smith. He had Smith caught out by wicketkeeper Lytton in the 51st over. Taskin Ahmad and Ibadat Hussain took 2 wickets each.

In reply, Bangladesh made a strong start in their first innings. At the end of the first day, Bangladesh have made 96 runs for 1 wicket in 24 overs. Mominul Haque is unbeaten on 35 and Tanjeed Hasan on 32.