Steve Smith Biography

Steve Smith Biography: Steven Peter Devereux Smith is an Australian international bowler who was born on June 2, 1989. He was the captain of the Australian national team in the past. According to the ICC Player Rankings, Smith is always named as one of the best Test batsmen in the world. Smith has been called the “best player since Bradman” because his Test batting average is so good.

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Steve Smith is thought to be one of the best batsmen in all formats of recent times. Smith started out as a leg-spinner, and when he was elected to the national team, he got a lot of bad press. But Steve Smith turned things around and became one of the top batsmen in the game.

Early and personal life:

Steve Smith was born on June 2, 1989, in Kogarah, Sydney. His father, Peter, is Australian and has a degree in chemistry. His mother, Gillian, is English. Smith went to Menai High School until he was 17 years old when he left to play cricket in England for Sevenoaks Vine in the Kent Cricket League. He was picked to play for Surrey’s second team because he did so well for Sevenoaks.

Smith is both British and Australian. This is because his mother was born in London. In 2011, Smith began dating Dani Willis, who was a student at Macquarie University studying both business and law. In June 2017, the two people got engaged while they were on vacation in New York. On September 15, 2018, they got married in Berrima, New South Wales.

Steven Smith Cricket career:

Domestic Career of Steve Smith

Steve Smith’s first season was 2007-2008. He was a leg-spinner who could make a lot of turns and was a good batsman in the lower order. Many people thought that he was better with the bat than with the ball. Smith worked on his hitting for a while, and in the 2013 Ashes, he played well with the bat. After that, his graph went up. Smith’s image took a big hit when he was banned from international cricket for a year because he messed with the ball. But Steve Smith showed he was stronger when he played well in the 2019 ICC World Cup and the Ashes.

Steve Smith was chosen to play in the 2008 Cricket Under-19 World Cup. He played his first game against Western Australia in the same year. On January 1, 2008, he played his first Twenty20 cricket game for the New South Wales team in the Big Bash. During the 2011-12 season, he played for the Sydney Sixers and was captain when Brad Haddin wasn’t there. Smith also played in the Global T20 Canada, the Bangladesh Premier League, and the Caribbean Premier League.

International Career

ODI Career

Smith debuted in ODIs against West Indies on 19 February 2010. Before the 2014 Zimbabwe Tri-series, Smith was rarely called up for ODIs. He then played three ODIs in UAE. The series opener was his first ODI century. Steve Smith was named Series MVP for his hitting. Smith then played in the South Africa ODI series. He scored his first century in Australia. The 2015 Cricket World and Tri-series ODI competitions were his. Australia won the World Cup thanks to Smith. He scored a century against India in the semi-final and a not-out 58 in the final. The ICC chose him for the tournament team after he led Australia in runs.

Australia lost 5-0 to South Africa in 2016. Smith hit 165 runs at the SCG in the ODI series against New Zealand. Steve helped Australia win the ODI series against Pakistan 4-1. Smith returned to international cricket at the 2019 Cricket World Cup following his band. He averaged 37.90 with 379 tournament runs.

Test Career

Pakistan was Smith’s Test debut in July 2010. Smith played three Tests in the 2010-11 Ashes series, scoring two half-centuries. His 2013 Test series was against India. He scored one half-century in two series matches. He achieved his first Test century in the final Test against England. Steve joined the 2013-14 Ashes squad. Smith scored 327 runs and two hundred as Australia swept the five-match series.

Smith and Australia lost both Tests against Pakistan. India toured Australia in 2015. First innings centurion Steve Smith. He captained Australia in the second match. The second Test’s MVP was him. Smith was crowned Man of the Series after four consecutive Test hundreds.

T20I Career

In 2010, he played his first T20I against Pakistan as a leg spinner. He was chosen to play in the ICC World Twenty20 in 2010, where he took 11 wickets in seven games. In 2014, he went to South Africa for three T20 games.

Smith had a hard time at the 2016 T20 World Cup, where Australia lost to India and was knocked out. Smith wasn’t used in the T20 series against New Zealand and England so he could get ready for the Test series against South Africa in 2018.

IPL Career

Smith was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the 2010 IPL. The next year, Kochi Tuskers paid $200,000 to buy him. He was picked up by Rajasthan Royals for the 2015 season and became captain of the team in the second half of the season. Smith was on the Rising Pune Supergiants team in the 2016 IPL. During that season, he hit his first T20 century.

He was chosen as the team’s leader for the 2017 season. In 2017, he took his team to the final, but they lost to the Mumbai Indians. In March 2018, Smith’s contract with Rajasthan Royals ended after he was banned by Cricket Australia for his role in a ball-tampering episode. Smith was named captain of the Rajasthan Royals in the middle of the 2019 season, during which he hit 319 runs, including three fifties.

Records:

• In the 2015 Cricket World Cup, there were five scores of 50 or more in a row. This is tied for the most in the history of the World Cup.
• Four of the scores in the knockout rounds of the Cricket World Cup were 50 or more.
• The only player to win the ICC Test Player of the Year award more than once.
• Winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, which is given to the ICC Cricketer of the Year.
• He was the sixth fastest batsman in the world and the fastest from Australia to hit 10,000 runs in International cricket.
• He is only the second batter to score more than 1,000 runs in four calendar years in a row in Test cricket.
• Most One Day International (ODI) runs by an Australian batter in the shortest amount of time.
• The Allan Border Medal has been won more than once by five players.
• The first person to win the McGilvray Medal four times was Ian Botham.
• During the 2018 Australian tour to South Africa, he caught five balls as a fielder other than the wicketkeeper. This tied the world record and made him the 11th player in history to do this.

Prizes and Honors:

• 2015 – Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year)
• ICC Test Player of the Year -2015, 2017
• 2015, 2016, 2017 – ICC Test Team of the Year
• ICC ODI Team of the Year – 2015
• 2015, 2018 – Allan Border Medal
• Australian Test Player of the Year – 2015, 2018
• 2015 – Australian One-Day International Player of the Year
• 2017–18,2019 – Compton–Miller Medal
• 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – McGilvray Medal
• 2009–10, 2011–12 – Steve Waugh Award
• 2015 – Wisden Cricketers of the Year

Stats for Steve Smith’s Batting and Fielding:

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	200	50	4s	6s
Test	73	131	16	7227	239	62.84	13068	55.3	26	3	29	799	42
ODI	125	110	12	4162	164	42.47	4802	86.67	9	0	25	352	36
T20I	42	34	8	712	90	27.38	543	131.12	0	0	4	62	18
IPL	95	86	20	2333	101	35.35	1805	129.25	1	0	11	212	58

Steve Smith Bowling stats:

	M	Inn	B	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Econ	Avg	SR	5W	10W
Test	73	54	1381	960	17	3/18	4/83	4.17	56.47	81.24	0	0
ODI	125	40	1076	971	28	3/16	3/16	5.41	34.68	38.43	0	0
T20I	42	17	291	378	17	3/20	3/20	7.79	22.24	17.12	0	0
IPL	95	1	2	5	0	0/5	0/5	0	0	0	0	0