Why this cricket player felt ‘disrespected’ and exploded, a breakdown

We've got a ball delivered and hit. The batter wants to run. His teammate says, no, let's not run. Stay there. They could have scored a run. He said, no, I don't want that run. It's kind of fascinating if you don't know cricket and how it unfolds is really funny. That made Barber Exam, player for Pakistan who's playing in the Australians Franchise League, upset. Steve Smith says, no, I'm taking the power surge so the kid does a cartwheel into the button. Bam, the power surge is taken. What's the power surge, you say? Well, it's a period of the game where only two fielders allowed outside the inner circle, meaning they can only have two outfielders, so to speak, and everyone else has to be within that circle in the middle. So Steve Smith's calling the power surge for himself. He wants the short boundary that is on his side right now, and he knows there's a seam bowler coming in that he can hit around, and he's like, I'm gonna take this and I'll score a lot of runs. And his teammate, Barber Exam, is like, what the hell, man? Why'd you deny me the single? And Smudge says, oh, it's all right, man. I'm taking the power play. Yeah, we're just gonna take the power play, and I'm probably gonna score 30 runs. And he's like, well, you don't think I could do that? I could do that. And he's like, no, I think I'll just do it. Look at Barber Exam's hand on his hip, pissed, not happy about it. You know, better not backfire now. So Steve Smith walks to the crease, digs in the first ball. Let's see what he can do. Steps across and launches it over the short boundary. Now, that is six runs. That's the most runs you can score, and he did. So one for one, it's working out so far. Bam! And you can see how his top hand hooks, almost like a golf shot, to make sure that he pulls it a little backwards. Steps across to set himself up so he can hit it to his onside, or in baseball, pull the ball. Now he steps in again, okay. So the infield is stacked. The outfield only has two fielders. I know that's not cricket turns, but I want baseball people to understand what's happening, because I think it's very cool. Now he's gonna step across again, and that one he launches to dead center. Straight on. Not a short boundary. He used a lot of power there and got it. You can see before the delivery, he's stepping across his crease to open himself up to pull it, but that one was balled on that side, so he just went straight ahead. Sent it back where it came from. See him step across right there, watch this. Okay, here he is, and he's gonna step across as it comes to open himself up, but that one was kinda right there, and he says, all right, I'll just smash this. So two for two. The most possible runs he can score in the first two deliveries. Kind of proving his point as to why he said, I'll be the guy who does this. His teammate, Barber Xan, just looking on. The next ball, steps across again. It's a full toss, and just flicks that one off his pads, deep over the boundary, into the crowd, and flashes the new hand sign he's been doing, which no one really knows what it means. I think his teammate said it means like, take a rest or something, but he's been doing that somewhat aggressively towards the bowlers. The fans love it, whoo! Guy who got the ball, make sure he finishes a beer, steps across, and you can see the bowler, because he got taken deep last time on one that was off stump. He's trying to now put this behind him a little bit, but I don't think he's trying to throw it on the full, because that was easy peasy. That's exactly what he wants to do. He doesn't even need to swing hard for that. That's just timing, meeting the ball when it gets there, and sending it direction you want to send it. So three sixes in a row. 18 runs off the over so far, proving to be a good decision. The next ball, steps across again. Another hook shot. I'm not calling it a hook shot. Actually, it's not called a hook shot on cricket. Maybe it is, but that's what I would say. You know, in baseball speak, he's hitting that deep over the third base dugout. The fan loves it. The bowler doesn't know what the hell's going on. Like, I'm being targeted, and I don't like it. I should change something. I should do something different, because he's got four sixes off me. I'm not going to let him hit six sixes in the over, and be part of history. And look at Smudge, being like, all right, I want you to take a rest, whatever that is. He does it a lot. And look at, bowler exam, just not pleased. He's still upset. You would think maybe the points per music. All right, I got to give it to you. This is pretty good. You knew what you were doing. He's like, I could have done it. Oh, Smith is ready. He's going to go five for five. That ball's way off. He kind of stays with it. That's a nice little cut shot for four. It hits the boundary. That means you're getting four runs. The crowd, they're excited. History is being made. And the umpire says, that's a no ball. We've got a free hit. If you don't know what cricket, I'll show you the bowler stepped over the line, which means the batter still gets the runs for that ball. Plus, he gets a bonus run, because the bowler did this. So it's actually five runs for the team on that delivery. And he has to give another delivery. So usually it's six in the over. Now he's going to have to give him seven. So that's beautiful. And that, now he doesn't know what to do. Like, where do I bowl this? Goes full toss again. That one's wide. So that's automatically a run. And he's got to bowl another one. Here's a replay. And you can see again, when you watch cricket, don't watch the bowler at this point. It's common sense, I think, for most sports fans to watch the ball, especially baseball fans. But your eyes should be on the batter, not the bowler, seeing what he's doing. You can see Smith is taking a big step across his stumps, showing him his whole stumps. Maybe he was trying to hit it, and he misses. And since that is outside of the hitting zone, the umpire is going to say, yes, I agree with you. It's a wide, which is another run. So now it's basically like he has gone five sixes, because he has six runs, six runs, six runs. And then he got a wide and a no ball and a four, which adds to six with two deliveries still to go. So it's like he's got five sixes mathematically. And on the free hit, he just hits nothing. So that was a dot ball. And now here's the final delivery of the over. He's going to cut that one. It doesn't get to the boundary. It stopped nicely, but they are going to run for two. And his teammate didn't stop him. He was like, all right, fine. You can run out a second run and you're good. Cause I want to be on strike. I want to get up and prove that I can do it. And you can see his face here. He's just like, ah, man, I hope you're all right. I mean, it worked out, right? You good? Yeah, you're good, right? I mean, sorry, Baba. Like, come on, you all right? He's like, no, I'm not. See him turn away, he's pissed. He's like, all right, it's all good though. You just do it. You're up now. You know, you score some runs. First delivery, he chops it onto his stumps, which means he's out. So he's in a bad mood. You can't play cricket when you're in a bad mood. He was pissed off and it led to an immediate wicket cause he was in a good mental spot, I guess. Here's the replay. So you're going to get nice delivery and just chops it on inside edge into his own stumps. Immediately turns, walks, fuming. Matt, as he walks, he's going to hit the boundary rope with the bat. Oh no. I mean, he went on, he didn't come out for handshakes. There was reports that he hid in the clubhouse from his teammates. Then he didn't make the playoff squad. He left early. It was a bad time. It was a bad time for him in the Big Bash League. Here's what Steve Smith had to say about it after the match. Yeah, so we spoke at the 10 over, Mark, and they said, take the surge straight away. I was like, nah, give it one over. I want to hit to the short boundary. I don't want to screw up the first over. And I'll look to try and get 30 off that over. I think we got 32. So it was a good result. Not sure Baba was too happy with me knocking back that single though. He wasn't happy. As I said, also 32 runs at the over is a record. It's historic. It's the most expensive, which is what they say, over in the Big Bash League's history. So it worked out pretty, pretty well. And I'd be remiss not to show you this six from earlier in the match that Steve Smith absolutely destroyed and hit the top of the stadium and then bounced back into the crowd. I mean, sometimes you're just, it's timing and you don't need that much power in cricket. Sometimes you just power the ball to go as far as you can. And those are fun, as baseball fans know. I mean, that is a big, bam, six. So if you watch this video as a baseball fan or a fan that's not cricket, I think you would generally find it fascinating that this strategy and these tactics exist. So I hope you did enjoy that. Because I definitely wanted to make this one for non-cricket fans more than making it for cricket fans. Cricket fans know how awesome this is and how cool it is, but non-cricket fans have no idea the intricacies and the weirdness of all of that. And yeah, pretty ballsy move. Paid off. Thank you for watching. Go check out That's Cricket on YouTube. Doing big things over there. Coming up with some big things, to be honest.