Full Name

William Conrad Francis Smeed

Born

October 26, 2001, Cambridge

Age

22y 154d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Top order Batter

Education

King's College Taunton

Will Smeed announced himself as the latest young batter off Somerset's production line when he hit 82 off 49 balls in only his second professional game, as an 18-year-old against Gloucestershire in the 2020 Vitality Blast. Smeed had been marked as one to watch throughout his days in the county's academy, not least when he and Marcus Trescothick scored hundreds in the same 2nd XI innings when he was only 16.

A product of King's College Taunton, where he was three years below Tom Banton in the same boarding house, Smeed impressed enough in the 2021 Blast season to earn himself a deal as an injury replacement for Birmingham Phoenix in the inaugural Hundred. He was a breakout star in that tournament, hitting 36 off 13 balls on debut and finishing with a strike rate of 172.91 as the Phoenix topped the group stage and reached the final.

He hit the Hundred's first-ever century in 2022, against defending champions Southern Brave at Edgbaston, and showed his potential in one-day cricket, too. On his England Lions debut - in a match that did not have List A status - he thrashed 90 off 56 balls against the touring South Africans, as the Lions chased down 320 with 12.5 overs to spare.

In November 2022, Smeed made a ground-breaking decision: he signed a white-ball-only contract with Somerset, effectively quitting first-class cricket before he had played a game of it. He had endured a lean run in the Second XI earlier that year, averaging 15.57. "The easy option would have been to carry on playing red-ball cricket and try to fit everything in and reach a certain level across all formats, but I want to try to be the best that I can be," he explained. "To achieve this, I feel that I need to focus on excelling in one format."

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Will Smeed Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
List A110000.0020.00000000
T20s898842238101*26.641497149.49114216119410

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
List A1------------
T20s89------------

Recent Matches of Will Smeed

Photos of Will Smeed

Will Smeed finished unbeaten on 42 off 19 in Buffaloes' win
Shane Snater produced an outstanding spell to dent Somerset's top-order
Sean Abbott appeals for the wicket of Will Smeed
Will Smeed led Somerset's chase
Will Smeed hits a boundary
Will Smeed celebrates reaching his century