*CANBERRA – Former Australian captain Steve Smith has said he is trying tobowl like Pakistan legend Shahid Afridi.*

Smith, who began his career as a leg-spinner before he became one of thetop batsmen in the world, said his captain Jason Holder had told him hemight be called upon to send down a few.

Smith followed up his 63 off 44 balls with 2/19 in three overs in Tridents’Caribbean Premier League 2018 match at Lauderhill.

“I’ve sort of changed a few things up [in my bowling],” he said. “I’mtrying to model my action on Shahid Afridi, pushing it through and try tobowl fast into the wicket. Fortunately it worked tonight.

“He [Afridi] has been a terrific leg-spinner. I can’t get the momentum intothe ball [with my usual action] as I’m growing older. Hopefully I don’thave to bowl too much!”

It is worth to mention here that The Russell-led Tallawahs were left to ruea strategy gone wrong. Ross Taylor and David Miller struggled to finish thegame, even as the likes of Russell himself were left waiting for a chanceto bat. With 11 left to get off the last over, they only got to 154/3 inreply to Barbados Tridents’ 156.

The loss puts Tallawahs third on the points table.