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WR Smith

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

WR Smith — 47 career matches, 434 runs and 40 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
16.1
Bowl Avg
23.8

Career stats overview

47 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

47 matches

434
Runs scored
40
Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Death economy

7.41
econ · ov 17–20

One of three left-arm specialists under 7.5 at the death.

Powerplay surprise

12
PP wickets

92 kph into the stumps.

End-overs hitting

148.2
SR · ov 16–20

Harder than anyone in India's lower order.

T20 WC 2024

1
winner's medal

Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.

Outfield

38
catches

Fielder of his generation even in T20s.

Opp SR

114.2
batters' SR

They still haven't figured out easy boundaries.

Career threads

Beyond the numbers

Elite across all three formats

788 wickets across all formats. Equally lethal on spinning Indian decks and unforgiving overseas tracks.

Test cricket is where the numbers peak

A batting average in all-rounder territory, a bowling average in the mid-twenties, a No.1 ranking held across multiple cycles.

A franchise career of its own

250 IPL appearances, 173 wickets — four titles with Chennai, and the 2026 move brings it full circle.

Sir Jadeja

The meme that became a compliment. A cultural marker only a handful of modern players carry.

Head-to-head

Vs opponents

Career totals broken down by the teams WR Smith has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Glamorgan

Matches
4
Runs
50
Wickets
2

Kent

Matches
4
Runs
65
Wickets
5

Lancashire

Matches
4
Runs
42
Wickets
4

Somerset

Matches
4
Runs
45
Wickets
3

Middlesex

Matches
3
Runs
12
Wickets
6

Surrey

Matches
3
Runs
30
Wickets
2

Sussex

Matches
3
Runs
30
Wickets
5

Essex

Matches
2
Runs
16
Wickets
6

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where WR Smith has turned out most often.

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches
10
Runs
78
Wickets
18

County Ground

Matches
5
Runs
35
Wickets
8

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches
5
Runs
50
Wickets
2

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
3
Runs
37
Wickets
6

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches
2
Runs
41
Wickets
1

St Lawrence Ground

Matches
2
Runs
46
Wickets
1

The Oval, London

Matches
2
Runs
30

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches
2
Runs
14

Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.