Smith shrugs off rain pain

AUSTRALIA captain Steve Smith has no intention of panicking after his side lost the first one-day international to India in a rain-shortened match.

While the visitors went down after a long delay in Chennai yesterday, Smith was not reading too much into the result, having collapsed chasing a revised target of 164 off 21 overs.

“I’m not really concerned, 160 with one new ball would have made things easier,” Smith said. From 6-76 the mountain was too steep and Australia finished 27 runs short at 9-137.