Steve Smith (cricketer)
Steven Peter Devereux Smith is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team. He is consistently rated as one of the top-ranked Test batsmen in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa. He was banned from all international and domestic cricket in Australia for one year starting from 29 March 2018.
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Steven Peter Devereux Smith is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team. He is consistently rated as one of the top-ranked Test batsmen in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. He plays for New South Wales and Sydney Sixers in domestic cricket. In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa, during which he stood down from the team captaincy and was replaced by Tim Paine. He was banned from all international and domestic cricket in Australia for one year starting from 29 March 2018. Smith is the captain of Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. He has been called the \”best since Bradman\” due to his distinctively high Test batting average. Awards he has won include the 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 and 2018; Australian Test Player Of The Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One Day International Player ofThe Year: 2015. Smith married Dani Willis on 15 September 2018 in Berrima, New South Wales. Because his mother was born in London, Smith has dual British and Australian citizenship. Smith attended Menai High School, and left at age 17 to play cricket in England where he played club cricket for Sevenoaks Vine in the premier division of the Kent Cricket League.
In 2011, Smith started dating Dani Willis, a commerce and law student at Macquarie University. In June 2017, the couple announced their engagement while on holiday in New York. Smith was a member of the Australia team at the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Malaysia. In the tournament he scored 114 runs and took seven wickets in four matches. Smith made his Twenty20 cricket debut for NewSouth Wales in a match against South Australia at Adelaide on 1 January 2008 during the six team KFC Big Bash competition. By the end of the 2009–10 domestic season, Smith had a first-class batting average of over 50 after 13 first- class matches. He took 7 for 64 in the final match of the season he took 7 wickets against South Australian. Smith joined the Australian T20 competition became the city-based Big Bash League in 2011–12. In 2012, he filled in as captain due to Brad Haddin’s absence due to Test duties. He scored 166 runs with the bat from nine matches with a strike rate of 130, including one half century, and took 6 wickets at an economy rate of 8.06 per over. He also took nine catches throughout the Big Bash tournament. In 2013, he was named the second-best player in the tournament. Smith played for the Sydney Sixers and was the leading wicket taker in the 2011-12 Big Bash. In 2014, Martin Crowe described Smith as one the young Fab Four of Test cricket along with Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli.
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