Aussie legends Mark Waugh and Shane Warne have given Steve Smith a bake for being all over the place in the slips.

The pair, along with Fox Cricket colleagues Michael Hussey and Kerry O’Keeffe, pointed out Smith has made a habit of misjudging his positioning in the slips so far this series — and it’s cost Australia three wickets.

Smith is out of sorts at first slip, placing himself a full two paces back from where he needed to be, closer to the stumps, to take three catches against Pakistan.

After having to dive forward to scoop a catch that was later ruled not out by the third umpire in Brisbane, history repeated twice in Adelaide on day three as edges landed just inches in front of a desperate Smith.

Yasir Shah edged spinners Nathan Lyon and Marnus Labuschagne in quick succession in what should have been regulation first slip catches for Smith, but one fell short and the other was ruled not to have carried by the third umpire.

Smith admitted he was not sure about the catch and replays proved inconclusive.

Smith was later seen trying to measure his distance from the bat at first slip — clearly confused why none of the edges were carrying.

Aussie legend Waugh had a much more simple explanation.

“He’s way too deep. That was nowhere near it,” Waugh told Fox Cricket.

“That does surprise me, a player of his experience.

“You’ll have to ask him, I thought he had more brains than that.

“There’s no set rule, you just have to use your brains.”

Warne described Smith as being “really deep”.

“You would have thought Steve Smith would have learned his lesson in Brisbane,” he said. “That should have been straight to him.”

Hussey said Smith’s positioning is something “he’s going to have to look at”.