Full Name

Jon-Jon Trevor Smuts

Born

September 21, 1988, Grahamstown, Cape Province

Age

35y 180d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Slow Left arm Orthodox

Playing Role

Batting Allrounder

RELATIONS

(brother)

So good they named him twice? Perhaps not yet, but Jon-Jon Smuts is an aggressive, clean-hitting opening batsman who has made a name as one of the most entertaining cricketers to watch in shorter formats. He has been a cricketer since he could see over the top of a pair of pads at the age of six, he is unusual in that he opens the batting in all three formats, and he is no mean left-arm spinner. Smuts was part of the South African squad that reached the semi-finals of the Under-19 World Cup against Pakistan in Sri Lanka in 2007-08. In fact, it was Smuts' 58 - which earned him Man-of-the-Match honours - that put the South Africans in the final, which they lost to India. Smuts was also in the South African squad that won the 2010 Emerging Players Tournament in Australia.
But it took Smuts several seasons before he was able to break through at the highest level. Despite finishing fifth in the first-class competition's batting charts in the 2011-12 season, when he averaged 43.64, Smuts positioned himself more as a limited-overs cricketer. He was third among run-scorers in the 2014-15 season's one-day cup, scoring 592 runs at 59.20 with six fifties to his name. His reputation for big hitting earned him a CPL contract in 2016. Smuts finished as the leading run-scorer in South Africa's domestic T20 competition in the 2016-17 season and was finally selected in South Africa's T20 squad to play Sri Lanka in three matches in January 2017.
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JJ Smuts Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODIs6511808445.0022978.600120130
T20Is131301744513.38165105.450018610
FC11620717627215633.011037760.44103390031640
List A159152105172173*36.42626982.5093258155460
T20s20019217455612126.033614126.06324475145440

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ODIs6418016442/422/4241.005.4645.0000
T20Is131013617811/191/19178.007.85136.0000
FC1161621226464052066/4710/16531.093.1359.51372
List A159127530743231134/44/438.254.8846.9400
T20s200161280731721163/123/1227.346.7824.1000
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Recent Matches of JJ Smuts

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Dolphins vs North West--2/1117-Mar-2024DurbanT20
Dolphins vs Boland--0/2015-Mar-2024PaarlT20
Dolphins vs LIONS01/2313-Mar-2024DurbanT20
Dolphins vs Warriors301/2310-Mar-2024DurbanT20
Dolphins vs W Province7--08-Mar-2024DurbanT20

Photos of JJ Smuts

Wiaan Mulder and JJ Smuts added 115 in 70 balls
Jon-Jon Smuts gets creative during his innings of 53
JJ Smuts produced some clean hitting
JJ Smuts finished with a five-for to to set up Dolphins' win
JJ Smuts drives the ball
Jon-Jon Smuts made his maiden international fifty