Adam Collins looks at where the former Australian captain’s innings at Edgbaston on Thursday ranks in his all-time list of career defining moments

One of the great privileges of this job is witnessing moments that go on to define cricketers’ lives. For batsmen, those are the days that they post three figures. When Steve Smith reached his masterful century on Thursday, I realised that on 21 of the 24 occasions he has saluted for a hundred at Test level, I’ve been in attendance. Aside from David Warner, Nathan Lyon and Australia’s team manager, Gav Dovey, I suspect ...