PLAYER RESEARCH · Men

Steven Smith Test record against South Africa

2014-02-12 – 2025-06-11 · Available official international scorecards

Steven Smith complete career profile · More player studies

The record at a glance

This study covers 13 Test matches against South Africa with recorded batting or bowling figures: 23 batting innings and 11 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
Discipline	Innings	Runs	Wickets / outs	Average	Strike rate
Batting	23	933	21	44.42	53.13
Bowling	11	114	4	28.50	55.50

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 3.08 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 222.

Batting milestones in this sample: 2 centuries and 5 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 1,756.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year

2014269 runs
2016212 runs
2018142 runs
2022127 runs
2023104 runs
202579 runs

Exact yearly figures · 6 seasons

Test archive totals by year
Year	Mat	Bat inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	BF	Bowl inns	Wkts	Bowl avg	Econ	Bowl SR
2025	1	2	79	66	39.50	57.66	0	1	11	0	137	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	1	1	104	104	104.00	54.16	1	0	11	2	192	2	0	N/A	4.00	N/A
2022	2	3	127	85	42.33	54.27	0	1	13	1	234	1	1	9.00	3.17	17.00
2018	3	6	142	56	23.66	45.80	0	1	19	2	310	3	0	N/A	1.28	N/A
2016	3	6	212	59	42.40	50.23	0	1	28	1	422	2	1	8.00	3.69	13.00
2014	3	5	269	100	67.25	58.35	1	1	35	3	461	3	2	40.00	3.47	69.00

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
Setting	Matches	Bat inns	Runs	Bat avg	Bat SR	Bowl inns	Wickets	Bowl avg
Home	6	10	443	49.22	52.24	5	2	12.50
Away	6	11	411	41.10	53.30	6	2	44.50
Neutral	1	2	79	39.50	57.66	0	0	N/A

SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

2014-02-12
First available scorecard
Test v South Africa · SuperSport Park
2014-02-12
First century in this archive · 100 runs
Test v South Africa · SuperSport Park
2016-11-03
Best recorded bowling · 1/3
Test v South Africa · WACA Ground
2023-01-04
Highest recorded innings · 104 runs
Test v South Africa · Sydney Cricket Ground
2025-06-11
Latest available scorecard
Test v South Africa · Lord's

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
Date	Venue	Innings	Runs	Balls	Wickets	Conceded
2025-06-11	Lord's	3	13	25	-	-
2025-06-11	Lord's	1	66	112	-	-
2023-01-04	Sydney Cricket Ground	3	-	-	0	8
2023-01-04	Sydney Cricket Ground	2	-	-	0	0
2023-01-04	Sydney Cricket Ground	1	104	192	-	-
2022-12-26	Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	-	-	1	9
2022-12-26	Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	85	161	-	-
2022-12-17	Brisbane Cricket Ground	4	6	5	-	-
2022-12-17	Brisbane Cricket Ground	2	36	68	-	-
2018-03-22	Newlands	4	7	21	-	-
2018-03-22	Newlands	3	-	-	0	6
2018-03-22	Newlands	2	5	18	-	-
2018-03-22	Newlands	1	-	-	0	0
2018-03-09	St George's Park	3	11	18	-	-
2018-03-09	St George's Park	1	25	58	-	-
2018-03-01	Kingsmead	4	-	-	0	3
2018-03-01	Kingsmead	3	38	81	-	-
2018-03-01	Kingsmead	1	56	114	-	-
2016-11-24	Adelaide Oval	4	40	52	-	-
2016-11-24	Adelaide Oval	2	59	113	-	-

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.