Australia- IPL runs
- 2,485
- Average
- 34.51
- Strike rate
- 128.1
- Highest
- 101
Career
Steve Smith entered Test cricket as a legspinner batting at number eight and became the most productive batter since Don Bradman. His method breaks nearly every coaching convention — he shuffles across his stumps before release, his bat comes down from gully, and he plays the ball from outside the line of off stump — but the head is still and the ball is met under the eyes.
He was banned for twelve months following the ball-tampering affair in South Africa in 2018 and returned at the 2019 Ashes to score 774 runs in four Tests, one of the most emphatic returns in the game's history.
Highlights
- Scored 774 runs in the 2019 Ashes after a twelve-month ban
- Reached 10,000 Test runs in fewer innings than nearly any predecessor
- Began his Test career as a legspinner batting at number eight
- Captained Australia in Tests and led Rajasthan Royals in the IPL
Overview
What the figures show
Steve Smith's IPL record is one of the long ones — nine seasons between 2012 and 2021, 93 innings, 2,485 runs. 2017 was the heaviest of them, 472 runs for Rising Pune Supergiant at an average of 39.30, 110 clear of any other season. No IPL innings has beaten the 101 scored in 2016. Fifty has been passed twelve times, one of those going on to hundreds. Measured against the 182 batters here who have faced 300 IPL balls or more, 128.1 is slower than the 135.37 median by 7.3. Fours and sixes account for roughly 51% of the total — 225 and 60 of them.
He has moved between franchises — Pune Warriors (2012–2013), Rajasthan Royals (2014–2015), Rising Pune Supergiants (2016), Rising Pune Supergiant (2017), Rajasthan Royals (2019–2020) and Delhi Capitals (2021). Most of the runs, 630 of them, came in the Rajasthan Royals years. There is no IPL cricket on the record in 2018.
International
Career record
| Format | M | Inns | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 123 | 220 | 10,763 | 239 | 56.06 | 53.9 | 37 | 44 |
| ODI | 167 | 151 | 5,668 | 164 | 42.94 | 86.9 | 12 | 34 |
| T20I | 66 | 54 | 1,090 | 90 | 25.35 | 125.6 | 0 | 5 |
| IPL | 103 | 95 | 2,495 | 101 | 34.65 | 128.3 | 1 | 11 |
Indian Premier League
Season by season
| Season | Team | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 4s | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | PW | 14 | 5 | 362 | 47 | 40.20 | 135.6 | 24 | 14 |
| 2013 | PW | 7 | 3 | 159 | 41 | 39.80 | 120.5 | 15 | 4 |
| 2014 | RR | 7 | 3 | 147 | 48 | 36.80 | 133.6 | 13 | 4 |
| 2015 | RR | 12 | 1 | 293 | 79 | 26.60 | 132.6 | 33 | 3 |
| 2016 | Rising Pune Supergiants | 7 | 1 | 270 | 101 | 45.00 | 153.4 | 27 | 8 |
| 2017 | RPS | 15 | 3 | 472 | 84 | 39.30 | 122.0 | 38 | 12 |
| 2019 | RR | 10 | 2 | 319 | 73 | 39.90 | 116.0 | 30 | 4 |
| 2020 | RR | 14 | 2 | 311 | 69 | 25.90 | 131.2 | 32 | 9 |
| 2021 | DC | 7 | 1 | 152 | 39 | 25.30 | 112.6 | 13 | 2 |
| Total | 9 seasons | 93 | 21 | 2,485 | 101 | 34.51 | 128.1 | 225 | 60 |
Questions
About Steve Smith
How many IPL runs has Steve Smith scored?
Steve Smith has scored 2,485 runs in the IPL across 9 seasons, averaging 34.51 at a strike rate of 128.09. The highest score is 101.
Which IPL teams has Steve Smith played for?
Steve Smith has appeared for Pune Warriors, Rajasthan Royals, Rising Pune Supergiants, Rising Pune Supergiant and Delhi Capitals in the IPL.
What is Steve Smith's playing style?
Steve Smith is a right-hand bat who bowls legbreak googly, listed as a batter.
Why is Steve Smith's technique unusual?
He shuffles across his stumps before the ball is released and brings the bat down from the direction of gully, which is unorthodox, but his head stays still and he plays the ball late and under his eyes.
What happened to Steve Smith in 2018?
He was banned from international cricket for twelve months as captain during the ball-tampering incident in Cape Town, and returned in the 2019 Ashes.
Did Steve Smith start as a bowler?
Yes. He was picked for Australia as a legspinner who batted in the lower order, and only later became a specialist top-order batter.
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How this page was worked out
Where these figures come from
Sources for this profile
- IPL figures computed from ball-by-ball records of 1,243 IPL matches.
- International figures computed from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data, used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0.
- Date of birth, playing style and photograph come from a third-party player feed, matched by name.
How the numbers are derived
- A wide is not a ball faced; a no ball is.
- Byes and leg byes are not charged to the bowler; wides and no balls are.
- Six kinds of dismissal are credited to a bowler. A run out is not one of them.
- An average is runs over dismissals, and is left blank rather than shown as infinite.
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What this page does not cover
- Only the competitions named above. A record elsewhere in this player’s career is not counted here and is not implied by these totals.
- Ball-by-ball coverage of Test cricket begins in 2001 and of ODIs in 2002.
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