{"id":84546,"date":"2020-11-25T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=84546"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:08:52","slug":"smith-relieved-to-find-his-hands-before-india-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/smith-relieved-to-find-his-hands-before-india-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith relieved to find his hands before India series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia batsman Steve Smith says a training breakthrough during a stint in isolation has helped him find his hands again and he is confident his Indian Premier League struggles are behind him as he prepares to face India on Friday. Smith had a relatively quiet IPL in the UAE, scoring 311 runs at 25.91 in 14 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old said he had hardly picked up a bat during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic and then struggled on Australia\u2019s limited-overs tour of England, where he scored 31 runs in three T20 innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But back in isolation in Sydney, Smith said he felt like he had found his rhythm and was striking the ball better and able to place it where he wanted. \u201cThe past few days I have found something \u2026 I have found my hands which I am extremely excited about,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s just getting that feel of the bat behind my toe the right way, the way my hands come up the bat. But it just hasn\u2019t quite been right until two days ago. I found a little something and everything just clicked in. I had a big smile on my face after training the other day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia batsman Steve Smith says a training breakthrough during a stint in isolation has helped him find his hands again and he is confident his Indian Premier League struggles are behind him as he prepares to face India on Friday. Smith had a relatively quiet IPL in the UAE, scoring 311 runs at 25.91 in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84548,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84546\/revisions\/84548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}