SPD Smith

Right-handed bat · Right-arm leg-break

Seasons

Matches

1,186

Runs

SR 143.2

Wickets

econ 7.85

Catches

Player of the match

From CricArcade's BBL records, 2011-12 to 2024-25 · Sources

SPD Smith, a batter, played seven BBL seasons, all of them with Sydney Sixers.

The arrival

SPD Smith's first BBL season was 2011-12, with Sydney Sixers.

That first season brought 9 matches, 166 runs and 6 wickets at 7.84 an over.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2022-23, for Sydney Sixers: 346 runs at an average of 86.5, striking at 168.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 122.5, with 2 hundreds and 1 fifty, and a highest score of 125 not out.

One club

SPD Smith spent the whole BBL career with Sydney Sixers, from 2011-12 to 2024-25, although 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2020-21 and 2021-22 passed without an appearance.

How the runs came

Across the career, SPD Smith struck at 143.2. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 122.4, so SPD Smith scored about 21 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 55% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 86 fours and 51 sixes.

The legacy

SPD Smith made 32 BBL appearances, the last for Sydney Sixers in 2024-25.

Season by season

Batting, bowling and fielding for each BBL season. SR is strike rate, Econ runs per over, POTM player-of-the-match awards; * not out.
Season	Team	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50/100	Wkts	Econ	Best
2011-12 (BBL\|01)	Sydney Sixers	9	166	51	23.7	129.7	1/0	6	7.84	–
2012-13 (BBL\|02)	Sydney Sixers	6	156	58	31.2	115.6	1/0	0	8.00	–
2013-14 (BBL\|03)	Sydney Sixers	4	164	65	41.0	125.2	2/0	–	–	–
2019-20 (BBL\|09)	Sydney Sixers	4	120	66*	40.0	144.6	1/0	–	–	–
2022-23 (BBL\|12)	Sydney Sixers	5	346	125*	86.5	168.8	1/2	–	–	–
2023-24 (BBL\|13)	Sydney Sixers	2	61	61	30.5	138.6	1/0	–	–	–
2024-25 (BBL\|14)	Sydney Sixers	2	173	121*	173.0	169.6	1/1	–	–	–

Franchise journey

Sydney Sixers: 2011-12 to 2024-25

Sources

CricArcade BBL season statistics