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Graeme Smith stats

Data through 18 May 2014Last updated 18 May 2014

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 26 December 2002 to 18 May 2014. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Between 2002 and 2014, Graeme Smith appears in 94 Tests, 155 ODIs, 31 T20Is for South Africa in the Cricsheet data. In Tests Graeme Smith scored 7,584 runs in 166 innings (average 48.93, strike rate 60.7), including 23 hundreds and 32 fifties. Against Bangladesh in Tests, Graeme Smith averaged 97.60 over 5 innings.

International matches

280

Tests 94 · ODIs 155 · T20Is 31

International runs

13,748

31 hundreds

International wickets

0 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

792 runs

Best batting average (Test)

48.93

166 innings

Highest score

277

Test

Teams played for

South Africa 2002–2014 · 278Rajasthan Royals 2008–2010 · 25Pune Warriors 2011 · 4Surrey 2014 · 3Cape Cobras 2014 · 2Africa XI 2005 · 1ICC World XI 2005 · 1

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Graeme Smith batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	94	166	11	7,584	277	48.93	12,489	60.7	23	32	8	952	19
ODI	155	152	7	5,280	141	36.41	6,467	81.6	8	36	8	588	38
T20I	31	31	1	884	89*	29.47	716	123.5	0	4	1	110	21
T20 (leagues & domestic)	32	32	3	792	91	27.31	713	111.1	0	4	3	99	10
First-class	2	3	0	120	103	40.00	141	85.1	1	0	0	17	0

Runs per year

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Graeme Smith: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2002	29
2003	1,276
2004	671
2005	1,335
2006	1,093
2007	1,761
2008	2,528
2009	1,205
2010	1,632
2011	807
2012	1,163
2013	942
2014	218

Year-by-year batting (37 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2002	Test	2	29	29.00	43.9	16	0	0
2003	ODI	12	382	31.83	76.2	71	0	4
2003	Test	15	894	59.60	68.9	277	3	2
2004	ODI	7	256	36.57	70.5	53	0	1
2004	Test	8	415	59.29	56.1	125	1	2
2005	ODI	17	697	43.56	82.1	117	3	2
2005	T20I	1	61	61.00	141.9	61	0	1
2005	Test	11	577	57.70	65.5	126	3	2
2006	ODI	21	561	28.05	85.3	119	1	3
2006	T20I	3	127	63.50	121.0	89	0	1
2006	Test	15	405	27.00	60.5	68	0	3
2007	ODI	25	1079	46.91	92.1	96	0	12
2007	T20I	6	101	16.83	107.4	41	0	0
2007	Test	15	581	38.73	58.5	133	1	3
2008	ODI	10	427	53.38	83.6	103	1	4
2008	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	441	49.00	121.8	91	0	3
2008	T20I	1	4	4.00	100.0	4	0	0
2008	Test	25	1656	72.00	65.8	232	6	6
2009	ODI	13	502	38.62	96.4	141	1	4
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	212	19.27	98.1	77	0	1
2009	T20I	8	278	34.75	136.3	88	0	1
2009	Test	9	213	30.43	47.5	75	0	2
2010	ODI	11	328	32.80	85.4	92	0	1
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	44	22.00	112.8	26	0	0
2010	T20I	10	289	28.90	121.4	58	0	1
2010	Test	18	971	53.94	57.4	183	4	3
2011	ODI	15	419	27.93	65.2	77	0	2
2011	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	42	10.50	82.4	24	0	0
2011	T20I	2	24	12.00	85.7	24	0	0
2011	Test	9	322	40.25	64.4	101	1	1
2012	ODI	10	338	33.80	72.5	125	1	2
2012	Test	19	825	48.53	54.2	131	3	5
2013	ODI	11	291	26.45	72.8	116	1	1
2013	Test	14	651	50.08	59.5	234	1	3
2014	First-class	3	120	40.00	85.1	103	1	0
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	53	17.67	117.8	23	0	0
2014	Test	6	45	7.50	63.4	14	0	0

Graeme Smith bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	Mdns
Test	23	910	616	5	2/145	2/145	123.20	4.06	182.0	14
ODI	33	808	724	15	3/30	–	48.27	5.38	53.9	0
T20I	3	24	57	0	–	–	–	14.25	–	0

Wickets per year

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Graeme Smith: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2002	0
2003	1
2004	2
2005	3
2006	8
2007	6
2008	0
2009	0
2010	0
2011	0
2012	0
2013	0
2014	0

Year-by-year bowling (17 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2003	ODI	1	0	–	10.00	0/10
2003	Test	5	1	81.00	3.65	1/13
2004	ODI	2	1	54.00	6.75	1/48
2004	Test	2	1	35.00	2.92	1/19
2005	ODI	5	0	–	5.80	0/7
2005	T20I	1	0	–	20.00	0/20
2005	Test	6	3	89.00	3.87	2/145
2006	ODI	15	8	48.88	4.95	3/30
2006	T20I	1	0	–	10.50	0/21
2006	Test	3	0	–	4.26	0/11
2007	ODI	10	6	35.17	5.75	2/56
2007	T20I	1	0	–	16.00	0/16
2007	Test	2	0	–	5.67	0/18
2010	Test	1	0	–	8.00	0/4
2011	Test	1	0	–	6.75	0/27
2012	Test	2	0	–	3.91	0/7
2013	Test	1	0	–	10.00	0/10

Graeme Smith against each team

vs Australia vs England vs Pakistan vs India vs New Zealand vs West Indies vs Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
England	Test	30	1599	57.11	56.5	277	6	5
Pakistan	Test	26	1227	49.08	58.3	234	4	3
West Indies	Test	16	1126	75.07	62.8	147	5	4
Australia	Test	35	1060	33.12	59.2	122	3	4
India	Test	27	987	37.96	61.1	94	0	8
New Zealand	Test	20	817	45.39	61.8	125	2	6
Bangladesh	Test	5	488	97.60	70.8	232	2	1
Sri Lanka	Test	5	118	29.50	60.5	61	0	1
England	ODI	22	804	40.20	81.1	141	3	3
Pakistan	ODI	25	738	32.09	79.0	92	0	7
Sri Lanka	ODI	15	601	40.07	82.2	125	1	4
Zimbabwe	ODI	12	586	48.83	92.1	117	1	5
New Zealand	ODI	17	573	33.71	75.9	116	1	3
Australia	ODI	19	567	31.50	91.0	119	1	4
West Indies	ODI	18	542	30.11	75.1	86	0	4
India	ODI	12	324	27.00	76.4	79	0	2
Bangladesh	ODI	5	256	85.33	73.6	103	1	1
England	T20I	5	178	35.60	149.6	88	0	1
Australia	T20I	4	135	45.00	120.5	89	0	1
New Zealand	T20I	5	117	23.40	106.4	61	0	1
West Indies	T20I	5	115	23.00	125.0	37	0	0
India	T20I	4	82	20.50	101.2	36	0	0
Pakistan	T20I	4	74	18.50	91.4	38	0	0
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	158	52.67	118.8	91	0	1
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	146	48.67	117.7	75	0	1
Delhi Capitals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	123	24.60	95.3	44	0	0
Deccan Chargers	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	112	28.00	120.4	71	0	1
Punjab Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	79	26.33	154.9	77	0	1
Mumbai Indians	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	56	14.00	90.3	26	0	0
Kolkata Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	41	13.67	78.8	24	0	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
West Indies	Test	5	2	98.50	3.43	2/145
Pakistan	Test	6	1	115.00	4.23	1/13
New Zealand	Test	4	1	101.00	3.88	1/19
India	Test	3	0	–	4.93	0/16
Sri Lanka	ODI	6	4	33.50	4.96	3/30
Australia	ODI	9	3	83.33	5.68	1/15
West Indies	ODI	4	3	37.33	6.59	2/56
Pakistan	ODI	3	2	29.50	5.06	1/6
England	ODI	3	0	–	6.00	0/9

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Newlands	44	1744	42.54	183
The Wanderers Stadium	35	1405	41.32	132
SuperSport Park	33	1215	39.19	141
Kingsmead	35	1025	32.03	147
Edgbaston	4	523	174.33	277
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	6	488	81.33	234
Kennington Oval	12	478	39.83	131
St George's Park	19	441	23.21	105
Warner Park	5	410	82.00	132
Gaddafi Stadium	9	400	44.44	133

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground	1	3	10.00	3.00
National Cricket Stadium	1	2	28.00	11.20
Docklands Stadium	2	2	37.00	5.29
Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's	1	2	72.50	3.37
Eden Park	1	1	19.00	3.80
Gaddafi Stadium	2	1	27.00	2.05
Brabourne Stadium	1	1	32.00	4.00
Providence Stadium	3	1	37.00	5.29
Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	41.00	5.86
Sawai Mansingh Stadium	1	1	43.00	4.30

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	988	901	109.7	29	–	–	–
T20	Middle	591	473	124.9	26	18	0	12.33
T20	Death	97	55	176.4	4	6	0	20.00
ODI	Powerplay	2526	3407	74.1	68	–	–	–
ODI	Middle	2630	2958	88.9	71	666	11	5.33
ODI	Death	124	102	121.6	6	142	4	5.58

How Graeme Smith was dismissed

Caught207 (57%)
Bowled66 (18%)
Lbw58 (16%)
Stumped13 (4%)
Run out9 (2%)
Caught and bowled8 (2%)
Hit wicket1 (0%)

How Graeme Smith took wickets

Caught14
Lbw3
Bowled2
Caught and bowled1

Last 20 innings

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Graeme Smith: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
30 Oct 2013	20
1 Nov 2013	14
24 Nov 2013	12
27 Nov 2013	1
18 Dec 2013	68
18 Dec 2013	44
26 Dec 2013	47
26 Dec 2013	27
9 Jan 2014	23
15 Jan 2014	10
12 Feb 2014	10
12 Feb 2014	4
20 Feb 2014	9
20 Feb 2014	14
1 Mar 2014	5
1 Mar 2014	3
27 Apr 2014	3
11 May 2014	14
11 May 2014	103
18 May 2014	20

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
18 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Somerset	20	15	caught	County Ground, Taunton
11 May 2014	First-class	Gloucestershire	103	112	caught	Kennington Oval
11 May 2014	First-class	Gloucestershire	14	24	lbw	Kennington Oval
27 Apr 2014	First-class	Hampshire	3	5	lbw	The Rose Bowl
1 Mar 2014	Test	Australia	3	3	caught	Newlands
1 Mar 2014	Test	Australia	5	19	caught	Newlands
20 Feb 2014	Test	Australia	14	12	bowled	St George's Park
20 Feb 2014	Test	Australia	9	19	lbw	St George's Park
12 Feb 2014	Test	Australia	4	10	caught	SuperSport Park
12 Feb 2014	Test	Australia	10	8	caught	SuperSport Park
15 Jan 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Lions	10	7	caught	Boland Park
9 Jan 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Titans	23	23	caught	SuperSport Park
26 Dec 2013	Test	India	27*	33	not out	Kingsmead
26 Dec 2013	Test	India	47	81	caught	Kingsmead
18 Dec 2013	Test	India	44	73	run out	The Wanderers Stadium
18 Dec 2013	Test	India	68	119	lbw	The Wanderers Stadium
27 Nov 2013	ODI	Pakistan	1	7	caught	St George's Park
24 Nov 2013	ODI	Pakistan	12	16	stumped	Newlands
1 Nov 2013	ODI	Pakistan	14	35	bowled	Dubai International Cricket Stadium
30 Oct 2013	ODI	Pakistan	20	25	stumped	Sharjah Cricket Stadium

Batter vs bowler matchups

Bowlers Graeme Smith faced most

Frequently asked questions

How many runs has Graeme Smith scored in Tests?

7,584 runs in 166 innings (94 matches) at an average of 48.93 and a strike rate of 60.7, in the data from 2002 to 2014.

How many runs has Graeme Smith scored in ODIs?

5,280 runs in 152 innings (155 matches) at an average of 36.41 and a strike rate of 81.6, in the data from 2003 to 2013.

How many runs has Graeme Smith scored in T20Is?

884 runs in 31 innings (31 matches) at an average of 29.47 and a strike rate of 123.5, in the data from 2005 to 2011.

What is Graeme Smith's highest score?

277 in Tests, the highest score in the data.

How many centuries has Graeme Smith scored?

32 hundreds in the data: 23 in Tests, 8 in ODIs, 1 in first-class.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.