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GP Smith

India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter

GP Smith — 28 career matches, 714 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
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Bat Avg
29.8

Career stats overview

28 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

28 matches

714
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Death economy

7.41
econ · ov 17–20

One of three left-arm specialists under 7.5 at the death.

Powerplay surprise

12
PP wickets

92 kph into the stumps.

End-overs hitting

148.2
SR · ov 16–20

Harder than anyone in India's lower order.

T20 WC 2024

1
winner's medal

Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.

Outfield

38
catches

Fielder of his generation even in T20s.

Opp SR

114.2
batters' SR

They still haven't figured out easy boundaries.

Career threads

Beyond the numbers

Elite across all three formats

788 wickets across all formats. Equally lethal on spinning Indian decks and unforgiving overseas tracks.

Test cricket is where the numbers peak

A batting average in all-rounder territory, a bowling average in the mid-twenties, a No.1 ranking held across multiple cycles.

A franchise career of its own

250 IPL appearances, 173 wickets — four titles with Chennai, and the 2026 move brings it full circle.

Sir Jadeja

The meme that became a compliment. A cultural marker only a handful of modern players carry.

Head-to-head

Vs opponents

Career totals broken down by the teams GP Smith has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Warwickshire

Matches
5
Runs
113

Derbyshire

Matches
4
Runs
116

Worcestershire

Matches
4
Runs
76

Durham

Matches
3
Runs
43

Lancashire

Matches
3
Runs
35

Yorkshire

Matches
3
Runs
115

Northamptonshire

Matches
2
Runs
60

Nottinghamshire

Matches
2
Runs
102

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where GP Smith has turned out most often.

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches
9
Runs
232

Grace Road

Matches
6
Runs
178

County Ground

Matches
5
Runs
76

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
3
Runs
62

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches
2
Runs
39

Headingley, Leeds

Matches
1
Runs
56

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches
1
Runs
6

Queen's Park

Matches
1
Runs
65

Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.