Smith responds to Yasir’s seven-fingered salute

[Mark-x]

Pakistan’s Yasir Shah may have woken the beast with his seven-fingered salute at the Gabba, with Steve Smith saying it’s motivated him to not get out to the leg-spinner again in Adelaide this week.Speaking in Adelaide on Tuesday, Smith pointed out that some of his past dismissals to Yasir – including the one at the Gabba last week – came when he was trying to be aggressive and had played a “funky” shot in order to quickly lift the run rate.Yasir handed Smith a rare Test failure in Brisbane, bowling him for just four and celebrating by holding up seven fingers to signify it’s the seventh time he’s dismissed the world’s best Test batsman in the longest for

And he flagged he would adopt a much more cautious approach against Yasir in the second Test, starting on Friday, in order to not get out to the leg-spinner again.“It gave me a bit more motivation next game to not get out to him,” Smith said of Yasir’s celebration.