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Steve Smith

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

SPD Smith is an Australian international batter and occasional off-spinner who has represented Australia Cricket across all three formats in 327 of his 466 career matches. His career batting average of 46.65 from 21,366 runs sits alongside a Test average of 56.06 from 122 matches, the headline number by which he is most commonly measured. His primary competition is listed as One-Day International cricket, where he has played 158 matches at an average of 43.60. In his last 10 outings, all T20 cricket in the PSL and BBL, he has made three half-centuries and only one single-figure score, suggesting solid recent form heading into the middle of 2026.

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Steve Smith
Bat Avg
46.6
Bowl Avg
36.3

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Rajasthan Royals · All-Rounder

Recent form

In his last 10 appearances, all across the PSL and BBL, Smith has recorded scores of 31, 5, 53, 9, 46, 31, 24, 65, 37 and 54, converting three of those starts into fifties and maintaining a consistent

Strongest format

One-Day International — The ODI format is listed as Smith's primary competition, and across 158 matches he averages 43.60 at a strike rate of 86.91 with 28 wickets at 34.68.

Career stats overview

122 Test · 158 ODI · 186 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

122 matches

10,763
Runs scored
19
Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

ODI

158 matches

5,668
Runs scored
28
Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

186 matches

4,935
Runs scored
20
Wickets taken

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

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215
wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112
wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4
batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198
wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

14
five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

2
finals played

In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.

Career threads

Beyond the numbers

Over 21,000 career runs across all formats

Across 466 matches, SPD Smith has accumulated 21,366 runs at a batting average of 46.65. That volume of output, spread across Tests, ODIs, T20 internationals and multiple domestic leagues, marks him as one of the most consistent run-scorers in the modern game.

Test average of 56.06 from 122 matches

In 122 Test matches, Smith has scored 10,763 runs at 56.06. That average places him among the highest-performing batters in the longest format across the current era, with 19,966 balls faced reflecting genuine staying power at the crease.

Exceptional record against West Indies

Across 20 matches against West Indies Cricket, Smith averages 77.28 with the bat, his highest returns against any major international opponent in our data. He has scored 1,391 runs in those fixtures at a strike rate of 66.49.

SCG his most productive ground by far

In 51 matches at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Smith has made 3,184 runs at an average of 60.08. That is his highest average at any ground where he has played more than 20 innings, putting the SCG in a category of its own for his numbers.

BBL strike rate of 151.53 at average of 49.5

In 38 Big Bash League matches for Sydney Sixers, Smith has averaged 49.5 at a strike rate of 151.53. The combination of volume and tempo in that format makes his BBL returns stand out clearly against his T20 league numbers elsewhere.

What’s next

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Elsewhere on the web

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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.

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