Dwayne Smith
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| Dwayne Smith | ||||
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Batting style | Right hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 10 | 71 | ||
| Runs scored | 320 | 791 | ||
| Batting average | 24.61 | 14.92 | ||
| 100s/50s | 1/0 | 0/2 | ||
| Top score | 105* | 68 | ||
| Balls bowled | 651 | 2264 | ||
| Wickets | 7 | 49 | ||
| Bowling average | 49.14 | 37.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 3/71 | 5/45 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 9/0 | 24/0 | ||
Dwayne Romel Smith (born 12 April 1983, Storey Gap, St Michael, Barbados) is a West Indies all-rounder who plays Tests and One Day Internationals. He is a hard hitting right handed batsman and bowls right arm medium pace. An athletic fielder, he is one of the better in the West Indian side.
Smith made a run-a-ball 105 not out on Test debut against South Africa in 2003–04. His 93 ball hundred was the fastest ever by a debuant in Test cricket. It was the 3rd time that a batsman from Barbados has made a debut century, after Conrad Hunte and Gordon Greenidge. He however failed to make a half-century in his 9 Tests since, with his second-highest Test score of 42 coming against the bottom-ranked Bangladesh.
Against a the touring Bangladeshis in May 2004, Smith scored 103 not out off 70 balls in a game for the West Indies Board XI.
In one-day cricket, Smith has managed to have a strike rate of over 100 after 60 ODI games. He has two one-day half-centuries, 62 not out against Bangladesh and 68 at the 2005 Indian Oil Cup. His best figures with the ball are 5/45, made against India in Kuala Lumpur.
He will now join the IPL franchise of the Mumbai Indians in the absence of fellow West Indian Dwayne Bravo.
[edit] ODI Career Highlights
| Man of the Match Awards for Dwayne Smith | ||||||
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| Runs | Against | City/Country | Venue | Bowling | Year | |
| [1] | 62* | Bangladesh | Kingstown, Saint Vincent | Arnos Vale Ground | - | 2004 |
| [2] | 23 | Bangladesh | Bridgetown, Barbados | Queen's Park | 3/24 | 2004 |
| [3] | 16 | New Zealand | Auckland, New Zealand | Eden Park | 5/45 | 2006 |
| [4] | 32 | Pakistan | Kingston, Jamaica | Sabina Park | 3/36 | 2007 |
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