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Steve Smith Reaches to his career best Points in ICC Rankings; equals Len Hutton Record

The Australian skipper 239 run innings against England in third test helped his team to regain the Ashes by taking an indisputable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

Ashes-winning skipper Smith has almost single-handedly took the match from Joe Root’s team out of the series, accrued 426 runs in just four innings at an average of 142. This places him second only batsman in Test history to Bradman, who has average of 99.94 and by the time the fourth Test of the series starts on Boxing Day, he would have been number one for two years.

Four number of consecutive years for Smith to score at least 1,000 runs. He is only the second person in history along with Australia’s Matthew Hayden to do it in four straight calendar years. Hayden holds the overall record of most consecutive 1,000-plus years with five.

Highest Averages in Test Cricket History

Player Span Mat Inns NO Avg Runs HS 100 50 0
D Bradman (AUS) 1928-1948 52 80 10 99.94 6996 334 29 13 7
S Smith (AUS) 2010-2017 59 108 15 62.32 5796 239 22 21 4
A Voges (AUS) 2015-2016 20 31 7 61.87 1485 269* 5 4 2
R Pollock (SA) 1963-1970 23 41 4 60.97 2256 274 7 11 1
G Headley (WI) 1930-1954 22 40 4 60.83 2190 270* 10 5 2
H Sutcliffe (ENG) 1924-1935 54 84 9 60.73 4555 194 16 23 2
E Paynter (ENG) 1931-1939 20 31 5 59.23 1540 243 4 7 3
K Barrington (ENG) 1955-1968 82 131 15 58.67 6806 256 20 35 5
E Weekes (WI) 1948-1958 48 81 5 58.61 4455 207 15 19 6
W Hammond (ENG) 1927-1947 85 140 16 58.45 7249 336* 22 24 4

 

Moreover this helped Smith to accomplish a mark of 945 points in the ICC Test Rankings points.

Player Rating Year
Don Bradman 961 1948
Steve Smith 945 2017
Len Hutton 945 1954
Ricky Ponting  942 2006
Jack Hobbs 942 1912

 

Smith had reached 941 points after the first Test in Adelaide before dropping briefly to 938 after the Brisbane Test.That took him to joint second position in the all-time ICC ranking list alongside former England opener Len Hutton.

He overtook England batsman Peter May and Jack Hobbs as well as former teammate Ricky Ponting, closing within 16 points of Bradman’s tally of 961 points in the process.

Smith is already ahead of Bradman with regards to the number of Tests at the top. He has now been number one for 114 Tests, which is the fifth-most in a list led by Gary Sobers (189 Tests) and with Viv Richards (179), Lara (140) and Tendulkar (139).

Steve Smith Overall and 2017 Test Stats vs Other Big Players

Player Year M Runs HS Avg 200 100
Steve Smith 2017 10 1127 239 70.43 1 5
Overall 59 5796 239 62.32 2 22
Virat Kohli 2017 10 1059 243 75.64 3 5
Overall 63 5268 243 53.75 6 20
Hashim Amla 2017 11 942 137 49.57 0 3
Overall 109 8578 311 49.87 4 28
Joe Root 2017 10 905 190 50.27 0 2
Overall 63 5499 254 52.37 2 13

 

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