Ranking 10 most valuable batsmen across all formats currently
It is a different ball game altogether when a batsman performs in all formats as it shows his worth to the team because this is a rare skill.
7. Steve Smith
Imagine a boy making his debut for Australia as a leg spinner who could bat a bit and is currently the best batsman in Tests. Quite a fairytale, isn’t it? Such has been the career graph of Steve Smith. With a weird batting stance, the bowlers always think that they have a chance through LBWs and hitting the stumps as Smith shows his leg stump to them, but they manage to fall in his trap again and again.
Having represented Australia 250 times, he has scored 12712 runs including 60 fifties and 38 centuries. He averages a staggering 61.80 in Test cricket, which is the second most after the great Sir Don Bradman. Though he hasn’t had a similar kind of impact in white-ball cricket, he has always been Australia’s crisis man.
The former captain was banned for a year due to the sandpaper scandal in South Africa, probably the darkest phase in his life. But he came back with a bang and smashed the England bowlers in the Ashes series in 2019, thereby awarded the Player of the Series. With the captaincy ban finally lifted, Cricket Australia should consider returning him the captaincy as Smith symbolizes the very spirit of Australian cricket – best players perform when the chips are down.
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