Steve Smith
Australian cricketer, former captain, and Test vice-captain since 2021.
Steven Peter Devereux Smith (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian international cricketer, former captain of the Australian national team in all three formats, and since 2021, the vice-captain of the Australian Test team. He is regarded as one of the greatest Test batsmen of his generation, scoring over 10,000 Test runs, with an ICC Test batting rating of 947, the second-highest figure of all time behind Don Bradman's 961. He was named ICC Men's Test Player of the Decade for 2011–2020.
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Lore & Background
Smith was initially selected for Australia as a leg-spinning all-rounder in 2010, but was always earmarked as a batting prospect after successful domestic campaigns. After five Tests from 2010 to 2011 as a bowling all-rounder, he was recalled in 2013 as a batsman and took over the Test captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015. He now plays primarily as a batsman, batting at number 4 in Tests and number 3 in ODIs and T20Is. In March 2018, as captain, Smith was widely criticised for the ball-tampering incident in the third Test against South Africa. He stood down, was replaced by Tim Paine, and was banned from all international and domestic cricket for one year, with an additional year barred from leadership roles. In November 2021, Smith returned as Test vice-captain for the 2021–22 Ashes. He has since captained in 6 Tests for 5 wins and a draw, including Australia's only Test victory in India since 2017. In March 2023, he returned to ODI captaincy, leading in 13 ODIs, winning series against India, West Indies, and England, and captaining Australia in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. He retired from ODI cricket on 5 March 2025, leading Australia in his last ODI as captain.
Reader's Guide
Smith was a core member of Australia's white-ball teams that won the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup, and was vice-captain of the Test team that won the 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship. His awards include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2015, becoming the youngest player to ever win it; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015 and 2017, the only player to win it more than once; the Compton–Miller Medal for player of the series in the 2017–18 and 2019 Ashes, the only player to win it more than once; the Allan Border Medal in 2015, 2018, 2021, and 2023, tied for the most of all time; Australian Test Player of the Year in 2015 and 2018; Australian One Day International Player of the Year in 2015 and 2021; ICC Men's Test Team of the Decade for 2011–2020; ICC Test Team of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019; and ICC ODI Team of the Year in 2015. He was named by Wisden as one of their Cricketers of the Year in the 2016 Wisden Almanack. In domestic cricket, Smith led New South Wales to the 2013–14 Sheffield Shield title, scoring 75 and 103 not out in the final. He scored his 13th Sheffield Shield century in October 2025, batting at number 4 for NSW for the first time since 2013.
Did You Know?
- Smith has dual British and Australian citizenship because his mother was born in London.
- He was banned from all international and domestic cricket for one year following the 2018 ball-tampering incident.
- Smith is the only player to win the ICC Test Player of the Year award more than once (2015 and 2017).
- He is the only player to win the Compton–Miller Medal more than once (2017–18 and 2019 Ashes).
- Smith married Dani Willis at Berrima, New South Wales on 15 September 2018.
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