In the 30th match of the Big Bash League 2024-25, the teams of Sydney Sixers and Perth Scorchers faced each other. In this match, Steve Smith played a memorable innings while playing for Sydney Sixers. Steve Smith was recently a part of the Border Gavaskar Trophy. He could not do much special in this series. But he managed to make a great start in the Big Bash League. He scored a century against Perth Scorchers and made a special record in his name. The special thing is that he came to open in this match and returned to the pavilion unbeaten.

Steve Smith scored a historic century

In this match against Perth, Steve Smith played an unbeaten inning of 121 runs with the help of 7 sixes and 10 fours. During this innings, Steve Smith faced only 58 balls to reach his century. Let us tell you, this is the fourth century of his T20 career. He played shots all around the field and the Sydney team, batting first, scored a big score of 222 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs against Perth. Let us tell you, this was Steve Smith's third century in his Big Bash League career.

Steve Smith has played only 32 matches in the Big Bash League so far and he has also equaled the record of scoring the most centuries. Apart from him, only Ben McDermott has been able to score 3 centuries in this league. But Ben McDermott's Big Bash League career is of 100 matches. That means Steve Smith has played much less matches than Ben McDermott. Apart from this, Steve Smith is also the only batsman to score more than 1 century for the Sydney Sixers team.

3 centuries scored in last 7 innings

Steve Smith's bat runs very well in the Big Bash League. In the last 7 innings of this league, he has scored 3 centuries and also scored 2 half-centuries. Apart from this, in the last 8 innings he has scored 528 runs at an average of 88. During this period his strike rate has also been 173.11.