The Australian run-scoring beast, Steve Smith is one of the best batsmen of international cricket. The fantasy cricket fans of 11wickets.com has seen Steven Peter Devereux Smith starting his cricket career as a leg spinner.
However, his leg spinner stint did not work much. Once his coach told him that you would perform better as a batsman. And to the joy of daily fantasy cricket fans, from that day he started working with his batting technique and work hard to make it better.
And currently he is one of the best batsmen and has been a nice skipper for all three formats earlier. The fantasy cricket India fans has seen his great learning ability and catching power in many matches.
Let us know about him more and keep making your online fantasy cricket teams including him.
Best since Bradman
The cricket fans regard Smith as the “best since Bradman” due to his high batting average. He is the right-handed batsman who has garnered attention with unique unorthodox batting technique.
Captaincy in late 2015
Steve Smith started his career playing a few tests in 2010 and 2011. After that he has been a regular player in the Australian team since 2013, and took over captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015.
Batting at no 4
After being the captain of the Australian team, he primarily batted a no 4.
Test batting rating of 947
On 30 December 2017 he reached a Test batting rating of 947, the second highest of all time only behind Don Bradman’s 961.
Top-ranked test batsman
In January 2018, Smith was the top-ranked test batsman in the world. ICC has done players ranking.
Holder of many awards
He is the holder of many awards such as Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015, 2017; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One-Day International Player of the Year: 2015.
Cricketer of the year
He was given the award of cricketer of the year in 2015 by Wisden.
One of the young Fab Four of Test Cricket
In 2014, Martin Crowe described Smith as one of the young Fab Four of Test Cricket along with Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli.
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