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<h1>Steven Smith ton's Set Australia to 7-328</h1>
India require 329 for victory in the World Cup semi-final after No.3's essential century
Steven Smith put India to the sword one final time this late spring and made an alternate stride toward batting enormity with a glittering hundred that will be immediately stamped a World Cup fantastic if Australia can shield 7-328 at the Sydney Cricket Ground this nighttime.
Smith, the undisputed beneficiary to Michael Clarke's throne and a man who has taken his amusement to sensational new statures all season, was taking care of business on his home fix, playing the lead submit an Australian innings that at one point undermined 400 preceding a great battle back from the shielding champions kept them all that much in this semi-last.
Notwithstanding being a long ways from his merciless best, Aaron Finch (81 off 116) played a key sheet-stay part to the considerably more familiar Smith as the pair imparted a 182-run stand for the second wicket.
Umesh Yadav got the early leap forward for India after his chief lost the hurl, rushing David Warner into a confounded force shot and approaching rates of 150kph. Yadav's pace and threatening vibe underlined what showed up a deliberately forceful methodology from India, absolutely all the more in the mold of hot-blooded talisman Virat Kohli than their broadly smooth captain. Be that as it may pretty much as Smith was Indian Kryptonite all through the Border-Gavaskar arrangement, so it demonstrated from the start of his innings today.
He took a couple from the first ball he confronted from Yadav, timed the third perfectly through mid-off for four, and was away. Abruptly, the man who had taken Warner's wicket and incited a progression of plays and misses from Finch, was looking emphatically person on foot; Smith took him for four limits from his fifth over, driving Dhoni to expel him from the assault.