Sydney, Nov. 11 -- Steve Smith was the lone warrior for New South Wales on Day 2 of the ongoing match of the Sheffield Shield season 2025-26 between New South Wales and Victoria at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Steve Smith, who is captaining the side and will also lead Australia against England in the upcoming Ashes series, was the lone half-centurian in the entire NSW batting lineup.

While Smith scored 57 runs off 89 balls, the rest of the NSW lineup could only manage 71 runs as Victoria bowled them out for just 128 runs.

NSW started the day with Victoria on 340/7 and conceded another 42 runs before the latter were bowled out for 382 runs.

Opening the batting for New South Wales were Sam Konstas and Ryan Hicks, both of whom lost their wi...