Steven Smith, quietly trailblazing
Why and how Australia's Test captain is different from his predecessors
ESPNcricinfo staff
22-Nov-2015
Tim Lane in the Age writes about Steven Smith's detachment from the 'corporate' style of Australian captaincy, a method that came into being after Australia's commercial expansion over the past 20 years.
If Steve Smith dreamt of one day climbing to Australian cricket's loftiest perch, naked ambition was never on show. Having been given the job, nothing seems to have changed. Arriving solo in Melbourne the day after the Perth Test, he could be seen collecting his luggage from the airport carousel before wheeling an overloaded trolley into the distance with not a minder, manager, or lapdog, let alone entourage, in sight. Hopefully there was a car.