Quirky Steve Smith not guilty of gamesmanship, says skipper Tim Paine

Steve Smith was not erasing Rishabh Pant's guard in the batting crease during the third Test but merely indulging one of his many idiosyncrasies, his captain Tim Paine has said. Video footage from the stump camera of Smith dragging his boot across the crease on a tense final day of the match went viral on social media and some former players accused him of gamesmanship at best, cheating at worst.
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