New Delhi: Renowned sportspersons from across the world are known to be superstitous. Cricketers are no different. Australian skipper Steve Smith has a unique superstition.


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The world's top-ranked batsman in Tests tapes his shoe laces to his socks – a tradition he has been following for quite some time which went unnoticed so far.


Smith revealed it in a video posted by Cricket Australia on its website (cricket.com.au).


“Well, it started during the last season of the IPL due to the kind of pants we were given to wear. I have always had issues with looking at my shoe laces when I am batting. And it wasn’t working because the pant wasn’t long enough and the shoe laces would pop out and that was getting to my head," Smith said.


“So I got the physio to tape my shoe laces to my socks. I wear footie socks when I bat. And I got a hundred the first time I got it and I have done it since.”


While Smith doesn't know the reason behind doing so, he said it plays around in his mind if he says his shoes laces while batting.


"I just like to seeing my shoes and everything to look sort of clean and my pads just sit over the top of my shoes and just no shoe laces. I don't know why but it just plays around in my mind," he added.


While Adam Voges called Smith's superstition "ridiculous", coach Darren Lehmann, left-handed batsman Usman Khawaja and seamer Josh Hazlewood are all equally bemused by it.


Well, that superstition is clearly doing wonders for the Aussie skipper, who smashed three centuries in the ongoing Test series against India.


The Aussie physio will be more than happy to continue with the tradition till the time Smith continues his sensational run-scoring spree.