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Steven Smith completed 10,000 international runs
By Sandy Mar 3, 2018 4:57 pm
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Playing his 232nd international innings, Steven Smith completed his 10,000 international runs on Saturday. The right-handed batsman became the 13th Australian cricketer to score 10,000+ runs in international cricket career.

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Steve Smith

On the day 3 of the ongoing first Test between the hosts South Africa and the visitors Australia at Kingsmead (Durban), 28-years old Steven Smith reached another milestone as he became the 13th Australian cricketer to reach 10,000 international runs.

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After scoring 56 runs in the first innings of this Test, Smith scored 38 runs in the second innings.

Smith made debut in international cricket through T20I in 2010. In the same year, Smith played his maiden ODI and Test match. After the day 3 of the ongoing first Test between South Africa and Australia, Smith has scored total 10,013 runs in his international career in 232 innings.

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Smith has scored 6,151 runs in his Test career (113 innings) while he has scored 3,431 runs and 431 runs in his ODI (94 innings) and T20I (25 innings) careers respectively.

Steven Smith took the number of innings to complete his each 1,000 international runs

Runs scored No.of total inn. No.of Test inn. No.of ODI inn. No.of T20I inn.
1,000 52 15 22 15
2,000 28 23 5 0
3,000 17 9 7 1
4,000 14 3 11 0
5,000 17 13 3 1
6,000 22 10 11 1
7,000 24 8 9 7
8,000 18 10 8 0
9,000 23 13 10 0
10,000 17 9 8 0

 

After the retirement of Michael Clarke from international cricket, Steven Smith is taking care the captaincy of the national side which he is maintaining very well.

Now, we will look at the list of Australian cricketers who have scored 10,000 international runs.

Australian cricketers who scored 10,000 or more runs in the international career

Player Matches Innings Runs scored Average 100s/50s
Ricky Ponting 559 667 27368 45.84 70/146
Steve Waugh 493 548 18496 41.65 35/95
Allan Border 429 517 17698 40.77 30/102
Michael Clarke 394 449 17112 45.26 36/86
Mark Waugh 372 445 16529 40.51 38/97
Adam Gilchrist 395 428 15437 38.98 33/81
Matthew Hayden 272 347 15064 47.82 40/69
David Boon 288 367 13386 40.44 26/69
Michael Hussey 302 324 12398 49.00 22/72
David Warner 248 307 12360 41.89 35/58
Mark Taylor 217 296 11039 39.14 20/68
Shane Watson 307 334 10950 36.74 14/67
Steven Smith 200 232 10013 50.31 31/45

(Updated till the 3rd March 2018)