Steve Smith (cricketer)

Steve Smith, born Steven Peter Devereux Smith on 2 June 1989, is an Australian international cricketer and a former captain of the national side in all three formats, who has been Test vice-captain since 2021. Picked first as a leg-spinning all-rounder in 2010, he returned to the Test team in 2013 as a batter and took the captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015. He has scored more than 11,000 Test runs, reached an ICC Test batting rating of 947, the second highest ever behind Don Bradman, and was named ICC Men's Test Player of the Decade for 2011 to 2020. Smith was a core member of the Australian squads that won the 2015 and 2023 Cricket World Cups. He was banned for a year after the 2018 ball tampering incident in South Africa.