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THREE years after so surprisingly becoming a million dollar man Steve Smith has played the million dollar innings that may win back the Ashes.
Highly rated from a young age but paid and promoted above his station, Smith played a vital innings to rebalance the third Test in Perth following another flaky Australian batting performance.
Now 24 and playing his 15th Test, Smith was unbeaten on 101 at stumps, his second hundred, as Australia recovered from 5-143 to finish 6-326 at the close. England roasted in near 40 degree heat after Michael Clarke won a third successive toss and had no hesitation in batting.
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Smith and Australia's Mr Fixit, Brad Haddin (55), have set the platform for a barnstorming Mitchell Johnson to unleash on his favourite ground. He is currently unbeaten on 39, frustrating a baked and weary England.
The bouncy WACA Ground wicket is traditionally faster on the second and third days as it dries out.
England has not scored 300 in its first innings at the WACA for almost three decades and the last four have not bettered 215, suggesting Australia is marching ever closer to regaining the Ashes.
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Regarded as a better player of spin than pace, Smith played some crunching pull shots, including the one that raced to the mid-wicket boundary to raise three figures.
He waited until the ball hit the rope before an exaggerated leap in the air and wave of the bat signalled just how much his first hundred on home soil meant.
Haddin has been extra-ordinary during his latest incarnation as Australia's wicket-keeper, playing match-changing innings in every Test.
The 36-year-old now has 320 runs at an average of 80 for the series with a century and three half-centuries.
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Smith and Haddin added 124 in two and a half hours yesterday to right another listing ship.
Four of Australia's top six partnerships this series have featured Haddin, highlighting his own outstanding form and the inconsistency of some Australian batsmen.
Shane Watson is averaging 19, Chris Rogers 20 and George Bailey 24 in this series. All found different ways of throwing their wickets away yesterday.
The match was evenly poised heading into lunch when Michael Clarke (24) advanced to spinner Graeme Swann and drove at him.
The ball took the inside half of Clarke's bat and his 100 Test counterpart Alastair Cook came forward to gather the catch at a strategically placed short mid-wicket, giving England three wickets and the first session.
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Just when it appeared David Warner (60) would be Australia's saviour he attempted to cut a ball from Swann which merely looped to Michael Carberry at backward point.
Rogers (11) pushed the last ball of Broad's first over and the second of the match to mid-wicket and called a quick single only for Jimmy Anderson to swoop from mid-on and throw the stumps down as a diving Rogers was well short of his ground.
Shane Watson (18) made the cardinal Perth sin of attempting to drive a ball too far from him, edging to Graeme Swann at second slip.
Then after Clarke and Warner went George Bailey (7) was caught by a tumbling Pietersen at deep square leg hooking at Broad during a hostile spell.
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