Perth: Australia captain Steve Smith has used former England spinner Monty Panesar’s embarrassing performance on a UK quiz show to return fire at the retired cricketer’s sandpaper sledge.

Panesar urged England players and the British media to target Smith for his role in the ball tampering scandal of 2018 but was treated with disdain by the Australian great.

Clearly prepared for the line of questioning from broadcaster and reporter Bharat Sundaresan about those comments, Smith referenced Panesar’s 2019 appearance on a celebrity edition of the BBC’s Mastermind to shoot him down.

“I’m gonna go off topic for a second here,” Smith said to a packed room of reporters in the bowels of Perth Stadium on Thursday afternoon. “Who have you in the room have seen Mastermind and Monty Panesar

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