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WCF Smeed

India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter

WCF Smeed — 109 career matches, 2,842 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
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Bat Avg
28.1

Career stats overview

109 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

109 matches

2,842
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 WCF Smeed has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Gloucestershire

Matches
13
Runs
438

Hampshire

Matches
12
Runs
427

Surrey

Matches
11
Runs
273

Kent

Matches
10
Runs
267

Essex

Matches
9
Runs
296

Glamorgan

Matches
9
Runs
382

Trent Rockets

Matches
7
Runs
101

Middlesex

Matches
5
Runs
74

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where WCF Smeed has turned out most often.

The Cooper Associates County Ground

Matches
38
Runs
1,276

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
23
Runs
589

County Ground

Matches
8
Runs
186

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches
6
Runs
150

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches
6
Runs
102

The Oval, London

Matches
6
Runs
111

County Ground, Bristol

Matches
5
Runs
187

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Matches
4
Runs
147

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.