One had the other a summer, a memorable summer to forget.
The fortunes – and scores of David Warner and Steve Smith could scarcely have contrasted more since they returned into Test cricket following bans to their parts from the 2018 ball-tampering scandal.
Warner’s return of just 95 runs was the lowest recorded by an opening batsman around 10 innings in a Test series, easily defeating the worst of the John D’Arcy of New Zealand at 1958 – he created 136.
Because he dismissed the opener england’s Stuart Broad proved his nemesis.
Broad was also the bowler who removed Smith because of his lowest score of the string – 23 in the second innings of the fifth Test – but that was the first time he’d failed to earn a half-century in a leading run of form that brought comparisons to Sir Donald Bradman.
Here in numbers is the story of superb Smith and woeful Warner…
First Test
First innings: lbw Broad 2
Second innings: c Bairstow b Broad 8
Second Test
First innings: b Broad 3
Innings: c Burns b Archer 5
Third Test, Headingley
Innings: c Bairstow b Archer 61
Second innings: lbw Broad 0
Fourth Test
First innings: c Bairstow b Broad 0
Second innings: lbw Broad 0
Fifth Evaluation
Innings: c Bairstow b Archer 5
Second innings: c Burns b Broad 11
First Test, Edgbaston
First innings: b Broad 144
Second innings: c Bairstow b Woakes 142
Second Test, Lord’s
Innings: lbw b Woakes 92
Second innings: DNB
Fourth Test
First innings: c Denly b Root 211
Second innings: c Stokes b Leach 82
Fifth Test
First innings: lbw b Woakes 80
Innings: c Stokes b Broad 23
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