Top 5 Steven Smith innings

#1 199 vs West Indies at Kingston, 2015

The marathon innings against the Windies was perhaps his best Test innings yet

On a tricky Sabina Park pitch that had made life difficult for the visiting batsmen, the promising right-hander stood tall like a tree while others around him fell apart. Smith arrived at the crease only three deliveries into the match and the innings folded up within six runs of his dismissal. This would perhaps sum up how it had gone for the visitors.

The young batting mainstay had literally propped up the entire Australian innings single-handedly.

While Jerome Taylor and Kemar Roach were breathing fire, Jason Holder was able to extract steep bounce. On a tricky wicket with uneven bounce and some pretty quick bowling reminiscent of the famous West Indian fast bowling quartet, Smith dug in and played the innings of a lifetime, becoming the third Australian to be dismissed on 199.

He scored half the team’s total of 399.

Coming back in the second innings after the Windies folded up for 220, he once again scored an unbeaten fifty which eventually helped Australia seal the Test match and the series.