Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nHaving controversially missed selection for Australia\u2019s recent T20 World Cup campaign in the subcontinent, Smith is looking to press his case for a recall for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, hoping to add an Olympic medal to his overflowing trophy cabinet.<\/p>\n
The Sultans neglected to review a caught-behind decision on Usman Khan\u2019s first delivery during the run chase, which proved a costly blunder as the Kingsmen wicketkeeper plundered a 44-ball century, including ten sixes, following the early reprieve.<\/p>\n
The Pakistan gloveman combined with captain Marnus Labuschagne for a 123-run partnership for the fourth wicket to put Hyderabad within touching distance of the 214-run target before veteran Australian seamer Peter Siddle (3-39 from four overs) snared three quick scalps to set up a thrilling finish.<\/p>\n
Labuschagne (61 from 41 balls), Khan (101 from 47 balls) and superstar Glenn Maxwell each departed during the brief collapse of 3-11, with the Kingsmen at one stage needing 32 runs from the final 13 deliveries for victory.<\/p>\n
However, all-rounder Hassan Khan smacked an unbeaten 24 from six balls during the death overs to get Hyderabad over the line with three balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Steven Smith. Photo by Murtaza Ali\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have too many words for that,\u201d Labuschagne said after the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat whole game was pretty special. We saw two special hundreds, firstly from Steve; that was a captain\u2019s nightmare.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen for Usman to come out, especially with the tournament he\u2019s had, which hasn\u2019t been perfect, and play with that confidence and clarity was just special.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sort of said, \u2018I think I need a couple of games off.\u2019 And I said, \u2018You aren\u2019t getting a couple of games off, mate. I know how good you are.\u2018\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dazzling century from Australian champion Steve Smith went in vain as the Multan Sultans suffered a tense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-625001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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