'Still trying to fathom' - Smith rues missed opportunity in Test final - video Dailymotion

Smith was not pleased to lose his wicket to part-time off-spinner Aiden Markram on day one of the WTC final

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00:00I think we're in a good spot

00:02We've probably had a few missed opportunities

00:05with the bat to try and get a bigger total

00:08but I think the wickets offered something all day

00:11as we've seen

00:12and we're in a pretty good position

00:13169 in front

00:154 down

00:16so yeah we're in a decent spot

00:17hopefully it does a little bit in the morning

00:19like it did today

00:20so

00:21could have been a better day

00:22but we're still in a nice position

00:25Is there anything you learnt from your lesson today

00:27that you might do differently

00:28when you get a bat in the second innings?

00:30don't nick the part time off spinner

00:35down the slope

00:36I'm still trying to fathom how I've done that

00:38but yeah don't do that

00:40play what's in front of us

00:41you know might take a bit more spin as the game wears on

00:43it's pretty dry

00:44I don't know the seam might go down

00:46as the game goes on as well potentially

00:48so I think the bounce is going to be variable

00:50throughout the game as we've seen already on day one

00:52so just play what's in front of us

00:54and yeah hopefully we can get a few early ones in the morning

00:57and sort of go through them

00:59and have a bit of a lead

01:01that's the ideal scenario for us right now

01:03to one

01:05and then we need that

01:06interchange add one

01:07and the Jesuit

01:09and that you can be