Steven Smith Captaincy Record: Steve Smith will be the captain of the Australian team in the upcoming ODI series against India. He will captain the ODI team after a full 5 years. After the ball tampering case in March 2018, he had to step down from the captaincy of all three formats of cricket. Although after this, in Test matches, he got a chance to captain on some occasions due to the absence of his regular captain, but in ODIs, such a situation has come for the first time.
Steve Smith took over the captaincy of the ODI team for the first time in the year 2015. Till 2018, he was the regular captain of the Australia team. He captained a total of 51 ODIs in these three years. He is the seventh player to captain most ODIs for Australia. Smith’s performance under his captaincy has been 50-50. Under his captaincy, Smith won Australia in 25 matches and his team had to face defeat in 23 matches. Here three matches also turned out to be inconclusive.
How has Smith’s batting been as captain?
Steve Smith has scored 1984 runs in 50 innings of 51 ODIs as captain. During this, his batting average was 45.09 and strike rate was 84.96. While being Australia’s ODI captain, he has scored 5 centuries and 12 half-centuries. If we look at Steve Smith’s overall ODI record, he has played a total of 139 ODIs and in 124 innings of these matches, he has scored 4917 runs at an average of 45.11 and a strike rate of 87.64. That is, in the upcoming ODI series against India, Smith will have a chance to complete 5 thousand runs in ODIs.
Smith’s ODI record against India is excellent
Steve Smith has played 21 ODIs against India. Here he has scored 1123 runs at an excellent batting average of 62.38 and a strike rate of 105.05. He has scored most of his ODI runs against the Indian team only.
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