BBL 14: Steve Smith Equals Ben McDermott's Record For Most Big Bash League Hundreds

Australian run-machine Steve Smith on Saturday (January 11) went level with Ben McDermott for most hundreds in Big Bash League (BBL) following his third century in the Cricket Australia-run T20 league.

Smith achieved the feat with an unbeaten ton in Sydney Sixers' BBL 14 league stage match against the Perth Scorchers at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), a venue where the 35-year-old batter enjoyed a double feat with the national team last week.

Steve Smith equals record for Most BBL Hundreds

The Australian cricket team sealed the World Test Championship (WTC) final spot by winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series 3-1 against India with the final victory coming at the SCG on Sunday (January 12).

Within a week of that triumph, Smith, who stuggled with the bat in that SCG Test, smashed 7 sixes and 10 fours enroute to an unbeaten 121 off 64 balls as Sixers posted a total of 222/3 in their allotted 20 overs.

Although he failed with the bat in the Sydney Test, Smith had scored two hundreds to get back among runs in the bygone BGT, and carried that form into the BBL, scoring a ton in his first appearance this season.

This was Smith's third century in the BBL with all three of his hundreds coming in his last seven innings of the Big Bash League. His previous two centuries in BBL came in the 2022/23 season. He scored his first hundred against Adelaide Strikers before scoring another a few days later against Sydney Thunder.

With his third BBL hundred, Smith surpassed the likes of Aaron Finch, Darcy Short, Glenn Maxwell, Luke Wright, Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey and Craig Simons to sit on top of the charts with McDermott for most centuries in Big Bash. Here is a look at the players with most Big Bash 100s: