10 best players of all time from New South Wales

#3 Steven Smith

Steve Smith in action for New South Wales

The current Australia skipper and the best batsman in the longest format of the game, Steven Smith initially earned plaudits as a bowler, finishing as New South Wales' leading wicket-taker in the 2007-08 KFC T20 competition with nine wickets.

The leg-spinner found his true calling in 2009, a year before his international debut, as he scored four Sheffield Shield hundreds for NSW.

2015 was the best year of Smith's seven-year-long career so far.

His maiden double hundred during the Ashes made him the third Australian to reach 200 at Lord's after Donald Bradman and Bill Brown.

With 402 runs, Smith was the leading run-scorer during the 2015 ICC World Cup. He remains the only player to have hit a fifty in the quarterfinal, a hundred in the semi-final and a fifty in the final of a World Cup.

In 2015, Smith won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named the ICC Cricketer of the Year.

He was also adjudged the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year, which made him only the seventh cricketer in the world to bag the two coveted prizes in the same year.