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Smith can be best of modern greats – Ponting

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Ricky Ponting believes Australia’s captain Steven Smith has the potential to finish his career as the greatest batsman of the modern era. Smith’s century on the third day at the Gabba was the 21st of his Test career, in his 57th Test, and left him with a career batting average of 61.23. Smith began as a legspinning allrounder … Read more

Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97

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Save Photo Denis Mack Smith in an undated photograph. Denis Mack Smith, whose myth-destroying interpretation of Italian unification infuriated many Italian historians but established him as the pre-eminent British writer on modern Italy, died on July 11 at his home in Oxford, England. He was 97. In his first book, “Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860: A … Read more