Smith says Khawaja 'likes him down at four', with India blockbuster looming

Steve Smith says he’s happy to ‘bat wherever’ as Australia prepare for an India-headlined test summer

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00:00I have no idea. The conversations I've had so far is we'll go to England and play the

00:06boys over the T20s and then I'm there for the one days and then we'll make a decision

00:10after that. But there's conversations happening in the background. You see some comments that

00:16guys like Usman, I think, made. He said he likes me down at number four. So I think Marnus

00:20is of a similar thought pattern. So, yeah, look, we'll wait and see. I'm happy anywhere.

00:26I'll bat wherever for the team, but we'll see what happens.

00:30I think it's great as well that we're able to play a five-match series against them.

00:34You can't really hide in a five-test series like you probably can in a two-match series,

00:39for instance. So if someone gets the wood on you, then it can be hard coming back from

00:44that. So it's going to be a wonderful series. As I said before, I think we're probably the

00:49two best teams in the world at the moment in Test cricket. We played the World Test

00:53Championship final last year and beat them there. So they've been great out here the

01:00last couple of times. They've played really good cricket. Hopefully we can turn the tables.

01:04It's been 10 years, I think, since we last won the Borda-Gavaska Trophy. So we need to

01:10do that this year.