Made the right decision to not play a tour match in India: Smith

Former Australia captain Steve Smith, whose side had lost the series 1-2 when it toured India in 2017, indicated a lot of thinking had gone into the decision of not playing tour games on "irrelevant" Indian pitches ahead of the four-Test Border-Gavaskar series.

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