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Steve Smith isn\u2019t just one for strange antics at the crease. He also has peculiar superstitions.<\/p>\n

The Australian batting great revealed one such bizarre superstition of his whenever he prepares for a Test match.<\/p>\n

Speaking with England legend Kevin Pietersen, Smith opened up on how he struggles to sleep until he has batted in the first innings of a Test.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d probably struggle (to sleep) until I\u2019ve batted in the first innings and then I\u2019m pretty chilled. Even if I go out and face like five balls in the first innings and it\u2019s the end of the night or something like that, I\u2019d be fine. But until I\u2019ve actually gone out and played that first innings, I don\u2019t know. I just, I\u2019ve always struggled,” Smith told Pietersen.<\/p>\n

Upon Smith\u2019s revelation, Pietersen wondered if it were his pre-match nerves that still got the better of one of Test cricket\u2019s finest ever performers.<\/p>\n

The former English cricketer then pointed towards the several anecdotes he\u2019s heard about Smith, including the fact that the unorthodox right-hander shadow bats extensively in his room.<\/p>\n

Smith said he likes to visualise the challenge ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, it\u2019s excitement (not nerves). I\u2019ve kind of always used that time to visualise\u2026 yeah, I do some shadow batting. Some, not as much as I used to, but most of my visualisation happens when I should be sleeping,” Smith said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you know, it\u2019s probably not something you\u2019d say is normal or something you\u2019d tell people to do. But that\u2019s where that\u2019s where I do my visualisation and once I get out there and start playing, then I\u2019m good and I\u2019ll sleep after that.”<\/p>\n

Smith though feels he\u2019s not too superstitious. \u201cI\u2019m not too superstitious, you know? I tie my shoelaces to my socks. That\u2019s about, you know, the extent of it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Pietersen disagreed and came up with an inside story on how once former wicketkeeper-batter Brad Haddin had to keep giving Smith throwdowns after he scored a century.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he (Haddin) had to keep throwing balls to you every morning,” Pietersen told Smith. \u201cYou would search for him every morning. But he did say that if you scored a hundred after hundred after hundred, he\u2019s happy to keep bowling to you.”<\/p>\n

Smith recalled, \u201cIt was against India (during 2014-15 Border-Gavaskar Trophy). Start of the summer. I hit four hundreds in four Test matches. So I was locked away and he had to keep throwing to me.”<\/p>\n

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