Mr CRAIG KELLY (Hughes) (13:40): On behalf of my constituents in the electorate of Hughes, I wish to offer a special congratulations to Steve Smith, whom we proudly claim as a local, given he attended Menai High School and was a local junior cricketer in the Menai district. Steve Smith's scores in the current Ashes series are: 144 and 142 in the first test; 92 in the second; and in the fourth test an incredible double century of 111, followed by 82, for a series average so far of 137.2. Not only has this helped Australia retain cricket's most famous urn but it is unsurpassed, except for Sir Donald Bradman. And it was achieved in the most difficult of batting conditions. Steve Smith's success also goes beyond cricket, for it teaches us important lessons about innovation and experimentation. After over a century of cricket, one would think that batting techniques would be well settled by now. But Steve Smith's unorthodox batting style is one the textbooks say is wrong, and fortunately he wasn't coached out of it. As Adam Gilchrist has noted about Smith's unorthodox yet highly successful batting technique: Now everyone is watching him bat in amazement, and trying to learn from him. The textbooks on batting technique may need to be rewritten.