Australia’s Take a look at batting maestro Steve Smith dismisses former England captain Michael Vaughan’s claims about his retirement with amusing and stated that ‘he’s noy going wherever’.

Throughout a current podcast, former England captain Michael Vaughan mentioned rumours about David Warner and Steve Smith contemplating retirement after the conclusion of the Ashes, 2023 collection.

Right here’s what Vaughan had stated within the podcast:

“However the whisper was and I don’t know the place they’re getting this whisper, however Warner, if he performs at The Oval, it’ll in all probability be his final.”

“Once more I’m not too certain the place they’ve acquired that. And fairly a robust whisper was about Steve Smith that it could possibly be his final outing for Australia on the Oval as nicely. Once more, I’ve not seen that personally, but it surely’s simply the whisper and the gossip.”

Whereas David Warner’s Take a look at kind suffers a extreme stoop, retirement talks appear to be looming. On the brighter facet, Steve Smith has displayed brilliance within the longest format of the sport this 12 months.

Right here’s what Steve Smith stated when a reporter requested him about him retirement plan and whether or not he has any concept the place this assertion got here from:

“I’m not retiring. No concept. As a result of I’ve not stated it to anybody. I don’t know. I’m not going wherever.”

Within the ongoing Ashes 2023, the 34-year-old has accrued 319 runs in 9 innings at a median of 35.44. He additionally scored a century and half-century.

Within the ongoing fifth and closing Take a look at, Smith stood tall amid ruins and smashed 71 runs to take his facet’s first innings whole to 295 runs, surpassing England’s 1st innings whole to take a slim 12-run lead.