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NG Smith stats

Data through 21 July 2026Last updated 21 July 2026

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 30 March 2016 to 21 July 2026. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

NG Smith played 8 Tests, 21 ODIs, 2 T20Is for New Zealand in the data, between 2016 and 2026. With the ball, the best return was 165 wickets in first-class at an average of 26.01 and an economy rate of 2.89.

International matches

Tests 8 · ODIs 21 · T20Is 2

International wickets

2 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

548 runs

Best bowling

6/25

First-class

Teams played for

Wellington 2021–2025 · 32New Zealand 2024–2026 · 31Otago Volts 2016–2021 · 26Wellington Firebirds 2021–2026 · 21Otago 2018–2021 · 19Worcestershire 2024 · 16Surrey 2025 · 14

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NG Smith batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	8	13	1	210	42	17.50	399	52.6	0	0	0	22	4
ODI	21	15	4	115	21*	10.45	171	67.3	0	0	2	7	0
T20I	2	1	1	2	2*	–	4	50.0	0	0	0	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	70	47	11	548	51*	15.22	425	128.9	0	1	4	35	22
First-class	58	90	13	2,050	114	26.62	4,125	49.7	1	14	8	258	20

Runs per year

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NG Smith: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2016	3
2017	162
2018	88
2019	383
2020	291
2021	289
2022	111
2023	374
2024	624
2025	201
2026	399

Year-by-year batting (25 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2016	First-class	1	3	3.00	23.1	3	0	0
2017	First-class	12	162	20.25	33.5	59	0	1
2018	First-class	8	88	11.00	37.9	31	0	0
2019	First-class	8	366	61.00	59.6	114	1	1
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	17	5.67	73.9	9	0	0
2020	First-class	13	269	22.42	39.4	78	0	1
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	22	22.00	183.3	22	0	0
2021	First-class	8	186	31.00	52.8	72	0	2
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	9	103	12.88	130.4	38	0	0
2022	First-class	5	87	17.40	34.0	70	0	1
2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	24	4.80	92.3	19	0	0
2023	First-class	11	271	24.64	65.5	73	0	2
2023	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	103	20.60	128.8	35	0	0
2024	First-class	12	299	29.90	54.4	75	0	4
2024	ODI	2	9	4.50	100.0	9	0	0
2024	T20 (leagues & domestic)	16	236	19.67	136.4	51	0	1
2024	Test	4	80	20.00	66.7	42	0	0
2025	First-class	6	79	15.80	55.6	42	0	0
2025	ODI	7	34	6.80	56.7	17	0	0
2025	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	43	21.50	134.4	17	0	0
2025	Test	2	45	45.00	32.1	23	0	0
2026	First-class	6	240	48.00	62.2	71	0	2
2026	ODI	6	72	18.00	70.6	21	0	0
2026	T20I	1	2	–	50.0	2	0	0
2026	Test	7	85	12.14	61.2	38	0	0

NG Smith bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w	Mdns
Test	14	1,254	859	34	6/40	9/108	25.26	4.11	36.9	4	2	41
ODI	21	817	859	24	4/42	–	35.79	6.31	34.0	2	0	5
T20I	2	30	47	3	2/14	–	15.67	9.40	10.0	0	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	65	1,291	1,787	74	5/14	–	24.15	8.31	17.4	3	1	3
First-class	96	8,899	4,292	165	6/25	9/114	26.01	2.89	53.9	13	8	383

Wickets per year

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NG Smith: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2016	3
2017	13
2018	11
2019	19
2020	15
2021	32
2022	13
2023	39
2024	62
2025	47
2026	46

Year-by-year bowling (26 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2016	First-class	2	3	43.33	3.25	3/80
2017	First-class	12	13	37.62	3.09	5/56
2018	First-class	6	9	33.33	2.87	3/34
2018	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	2	18.50	6.17	1/10
2019	First-class	9	3	100.00	2.56	2/51
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	16	19.75	8.43	5/14
2020	First-class	12	13	34.31	2.69	2/19
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	2	21.50	11.22	2/43
2021	First-class	9	21	19.24	2.38	6/54
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	9	11	27.36	10.38	4/32
2022	First-class	6	10	22.90	2.66	5/35
2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	3	41.00	10.25	1/4
2023	First-class	9	24	18.38	2.96	5/67
2023	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	15	10.47	5.57	4/5
2024	First-class	17	39	21.00	3.13	6/36
2024	ODI	2	1	87.00	7.91	1/21
2024	T20 (leagues & domestic)	16	15	30.73	7.95	3/39
2024	Test	4	7	48.43	5.91	4/86
2025	First-class	9	17	27.47	3.13	6/38
2025	ODI	12	17	29.29	6.54	4/42
2025	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	10	34.90	8.58	3/18
2025	Test	2	3	19.67	2.03	3/20
2026	First-class	5	13	20.54	3.29	6/25
2026	ODI	7	6	45.67	5.59	3/45
2026	T20I	2	3	15.67	9.40	2/14
2026	Test	8	24	19.21	3.76	6/40

NG Smith against each team

vs England

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
England	Test	10	148	14.80	60.2	42	0	0
Bangladesh	ODI	3	41	41.00	83.7	21	0	0
West Indies	ODI	3	31	10.33	58.5	18	0	0
Sri Lanka	ODI	4	26	6.50	66.7	17	0	0
Canterbury	T20 (leagues & domestic)	9	86	10.75	116.2	27	0	0
Northern Districts	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	82	11.71	105.1	35	0	0
Otago	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	80	40.00	173.9	38	0	0
Auckland	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	74	12.33	134.5	25	0	0
Central Districts	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	50	8.33	142.9	25	0	0
Central Stags	First-class	12	439	48.78	50.1	75	0	4
Canterbury	First-class	20	418	24.59	53.9	78	0	2
Northern Districts	First-class	18	348	20.47	43.1	114	1	2
Wellington Firebirds	First-class	9	213	30.43	42.9	59	0	1
Otago Volts	First-class	7	198	28.29	78.0	73	0	2
Auckland Aces	First-class	12	148	14.80	36.8	41	0	0
Durham	First-class	3	91	45.50	54.5	57	0	1

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
England	Test	10	23	30.74	4.68	6/70
Pakistan	ODI	4	7	25.57	6.59	4/60
West Indies	ODI	5	6	29.17	5.74	4/42
Sri Lanka	ODI	5	5	45.20	6.65	2/43
Bangladesh	ODI	3	4	35.25	5.53	3/45
England	ODI	3	2	58.00	6.82	2/27
Northern Districts	T20 (leagues & domestic)	9	14	14.29	6.56	5/14
Auckland	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	11	24.55	7.98	3/13
Central Districts	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	10	19.40	8.82	4/32
Canterbury	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	10	36.20	9.36	2/16
Otago	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	10	11.60	6.69	4/5
Wellington	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	3	49.33	9.87	1/27
Northern Districts	First-class	20	37	22.70	2.86	5/35
Canterbury	First-class	19	31	25.87	2.86	6/36
Otago Volts	First-class	10	23	21.43	2.84	6/25
Central Stags	First-class	10	18	26.94	2.88	4/34
Durham	First-class	4	11	17.73	3.71	4/36
Auckland Aces	First-class	10	10	39.00	2.77	2/19
Nottinghamshire	First-class	3	9	14.11	2.70	4/29
Wellington Firebirds	First-class	8	5	63.60	2.64	2/91

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Basin Reserve	37	666	19.03	72
University Oval, Dunedin	21	522	30.71	114
McLean Park	7	236	59.00	75
Kennington Oval	7	172	34.40	60
Trent Bridge	4	116	38.67	58
Mainpower Oval	3	113	113.00	75
Molyneux Park	6	99	16.50	31
Queen's Park, Chesterfield	2	97	48.50	78
Hagley Oval	10	97	12.12	23
Chester Road North Ground	2	90	90.00	57

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
Basin Reserve	42	62	26.65	3.68
University Oval, Dunedin	26	30	34.47	3.40
McLean Park	6	17	17.00	4.30
Trent Bridge	5	14	19.71	3.63
County Ground, Worcester	7	13	16.00	4.00
Seddon Park	6	13	16.46	4.49
Kennington Oval	13	12	49.42	4.24
Molyneux Park	7	11	22.91	3.28
Eden Park Outer Oval	10	11	24.64	4.37
Cobham Oval (New)	3	10	14.00	2.26

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	47	48	97.9	5	672	36	7.38
T20	Middle	286	229	124.9	14	234	11	7.38
T20	Death	217	152	142.8	17	415	30	10.40
ODI	Powerplay	–	–	–	–	240	6	5.92
ODI	Middle	48	90	53.3	6	492	14	6.32
ODI	Death	67	81	82.7	5	85	4	7.34

How NG Smith was dismissed

Caught79 (58%)
Lbw23 (17%)
Bowled21 (15%)
Run out6 (4%)
Caught and bowled4 (3%)
Stumped3 (2%)

How NG Smith took wickets

Caught198
Bowled60
Lbw36
Caught and bowled6

Last 20 innings

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NG Smith: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
28 Feb 2026	39
28 Feb 2026	62
9 Mar 2026	13
9 Mar 2026	42
27 Mar 2026	71
27 Mar 2026	13
17 Apr 2026	21
20 Apr 2026	18
23 Apr 2026	2
27 Apr 2026	2
27 May 2026	17
4 Jun 2026	15
4 Jun 2026	4
17 Jun 2026	4
17 Jun 2026	38
25 Jun 2026	6
25 Jun 2026	1
11 Jul 2026	5
19 Jul 2026	8
21 Jul 2026	18

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
21 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	18	15	caught	Kensington Oval
19 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	8	29	bowled	Kensington Oval
11 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	5	9	lbw	Providence Stadium
25 Jun 2026	Test	England	1	5	caught	Trent Bridge
25 Jun 2026	Test	England	6	28	caught and bowled	Trent Bridge
17 Jun 2026	Test	England	38	51	caught	Kennington Oval
17 Jun 2026	Test	England	4	21	caught	Kennington Oval
4 Jun 2026	Test	England	4	3	caught	Lord's
4 Jun 2026	Test	England	15	18	bowled	Lord's
27 May 2026	Test	Ireland	17	13	run out	Civil Service Cricket Club
27 Apr 2026	T20I	Bangladesh	2*	4	not out	Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium
23 Apr 2026	ODI	Bangladesh	2	4	caught	Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium
20 Apr 2026	ODI	Bangladesh	18*	23	not out	Shere Bangla National Stadium
17 Apr 2026	ODI	Bangladesh	21*	22	not out	Shere Bangla National Stadium
27 Mar 2026	First-class	Otago Volts	13	14	caught	University Oval, Dunedin
27 Mar 2026	First-class	Otago Volts	71	64	caught	University Oval, Dunedin
9 Mar 2026	First-class	Canterbury	42	57	bowled	Basin Reserve
9 Mar 2026	First-class	Canterbury	13	18	caught	Basin Reserve
28 Feb 2026	First-class	Central Stags	62*	153	not out	McLean Park
28 Feb 2026	First-class	Central Stags	39	80	caught	McLean Park

Last 20 bowling innings

Most recent bowling innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Figures	Overs	Mdns	Ground
21 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	1/51	7.3	0	Kensington Oval
19 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	1/28	5	0	Kensington Oval
16 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	0/22	4	0	Providence Stadium
11 Jul 2026	ODI	West Indies	0/32	7	0	Providence Stadium
25 Jun 2026	Test	England	2/64	16	4	Trent Bridge
25 Jun 2026	Test	England	4/91	23	2	Trent Bridge
17 Jun 2026	Test	England	0/48	9	1	Kennington Oval
17 Jun 2026	Test	England	1/57	18	5	Kennington Oval
4 Jun 2026	Test	England	6/70	17	4	Lord's
4 Jun 2026	Test	England	3/38	10.4	1	Lord's
27 May 2026	Test	Ireland	2/53	15	6	Civil Service Cricket Club
27 May 2026	Test	Ireland	6/40	14	3	Civil Service Cricket Club
2 May 2026	T20I	Bangladesh	2/14	2	0	Shere Bangla National Stadium
27 Apr 2026	T20I	Bangladesh	1/33	3	0	Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium
23 Apr 2026	ODI	Bangladesh	0/50	9	0	Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium
20 Apr 2026	ODI	Bangladesh	1/46	7	0	Shere Bangla National Stadium
17 Apr 2026	ODI	Bangladesh	3/45	9.3	1	Shere Bangla National Stadium
27 Mar 2026	First-class	Otago Volts	1/71	24	6	University Oval, Dunedin
27 Mar 2026	First-class	Otago Volts	6/25	15.1	5	University Oval, Dunedin
9 Mar 2026	First-class	Canterbury	0/50	10	0	Basin Reserve

Batter vs bowler matchups

Batters NG Smith bowled to most

Frequently asked questions

How many wickets has NG Smith taken in Tests?

34 wickets in 14 innings at an average of 25.26, economy 4.11, best figures 6/40.

How many wickets has NG Smith taken in ODIs?

24 wickets in 21 innings at an average of 35.79, economy 6.31, best figures 4/42.

How many runs has NG Smith scored in Tests?

210 runs in 13 innings (8 matches) at an average of 17.50 and a strike rate of 52.6, in the data from 2024 to 2026.

How many runs has NG Smith scored in ODIs?

115 runs in 15 innings (21 matches) at an average of 10.45 and a strike rate of 67.3, in the data from 2024 to 2026.

How many runs has NG Smith scored in T20Is?

2 runs in 1 innings (2 matches) at an average of – and a strike rate of 50.0, in the data from 2026 to 2026.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.