page_title: Steve Smith (cricketer)
section_title: World Cup in England 2019
hierarchical_section_title: Steve Smith (cricketer) / 2019: Return to international cricket / World Cup in England 2019
caption_attribution_description: Australia's Steve Smith at the World Cup match at Trent Bridge on 6 June 2019
context_page_description: Steven Peter Devereux Smith is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team. Smith is consistently rated as one of the top-ranked Test batsmen in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. Smith has been called the "best since Bradman" due to his distinctively high Test batting average. He plays for New South Wales and Sydney Sixers in domestic cricket. He is the captain of Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.
  Although he was initially selected for Australia as a right-arm leg spinner, Smith later played primarily as a batsman. After a few matches in 2010 and 2011, he was a regular player in the Australian team after 2013, and took over captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015, after which he predominantly batted at number 3 or 4.
  Awards he has won include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015, 2017; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One Day International Player of the Year: 2015. He was named by Wisden as one of their Cricketers of the Year for 2015.
context_section_description: In April 2019, he was named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. After missing 2018–19 season, Smith was awarded a national contract by Cricket Australia for the 2019–20 season. On 1 June 2019, Smith played in Australia's opening match of the Cricket World Cup, against Afghanistan, at the County Ground in Bristol. On 11 July 2019, in the semi-final match against England Smith scored 85 runs, becoming the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to score four 50+ scores in the Cricket World Cup knockouts. In the tournament, he scored 379 runs at an average of 37.90, including four fifties.
caption: Smith during the 2019 World Cup
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