After the 30-year-old scored the third double century of his international career in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford, The Cricketer looks back at some of the Australian's finest displays
10. 138* v England, The Oval, August 2013
The first real display that England saw from the unorthodox batsman came at The Oval in 2013, when he made his first Test century.
Becoming at the time the youngest Australian to score an Ashes century since Ricky Ponting in Leeds in 1997, this was the first real indication that Smith was prepared to cement his place in the side since making his debut against Pakistan in 2010.
Lofting Jonathan Trott for an enormous six to bring up the milestone, it is perhaps the bravado that the 30-year-old would not opt for nowadays but one that helped him truly establish himself on the international stage.
A day when rain and England's slow over-rate tested the crowd's patience, Smith shone to kickstart what has been a magnificent Test career so far.
9. 178* v India, Ranchi, March 2017
England have become very accustomed to Smith occupying the crease for a long period of time, but even those familiar with his patience would have been amazed at his time in the middle in Ranchi.
Smith batted for a chanceless eight-and-a-half hours on an extremely slow, drab deck in Chennai to ensure his side made 451, and it may have been another double hundred had they not been bowled out.
He had talked before the series of facing adversity with the meat of the bat and batting for long periods, and he certainly practiced as he preached with a resistant knock here.
8. 199 v West Indies, Kingston, June 2015
He has three double hundreds in the Test arena, but had things gone a little differently at Sabina Park in Jamaica four years ago, it could quite easily be four.
Batting for the best part of a day and a half, Smith looked on course for what at the time would have been a first double century of his career after being provided some excellent support from Josh Hazlewood when approaching the landmark.
But having helped Australia recover from 0 for 1 to a score verging on 400, an inswinging delivery from Jerome Taylor saw Smith join the 199 club and he walked off utterly disgusted with himself.
The eighth man to be dismissed on that score in Test history, Smith would have believed he would follow in the footsteps of Steve Waugh, who made a double hundred there two decades before.
But not even DRS could save him as he was forced to walk back as Taylor sank to his knees in celebration, such was the price on his wicket. Had he blown the chance to become the first Australian to score a double century on foreign soil since Jason Gillespie in Bangladesh in 2006?
He would get the answer the following month.
Smith's fell one short of his double hundred in Jamaica
7. 215 v England, Lord's, July 2015
The first of the trio of double centuries that Steve Smith has scored against England, Steve Smith once again commandeered the destiny of a Ashes Test with a stunning effort at Lord's.
The first at the ground since 1938, Smith was not left fending for himself on this occasion after he shared a mammoth 284-run partnership with opener Chris Rogers.
However, that did not attract from the splendour of the innings, manipulating the field when facing Stuart Broad and James Anderson, who was attempting to put a legside plan into play by coming around the wicket and then powering Moeen Ali to all parts of the ground.
Smith had been promoted to no.3 for the Test match and there were fears that exposing him to the new ball would highlight flaws in his unusual technique, given that he had batted at low as no.9 earlier in his career.
However, he held his poise in his 346-ball effort saw Australia go from 78-1 to 533-6 and saw him register a sixth century in his past eight Tests, with all of them coming in the first innings of the match.
The eventual result of the series may have favoured England, but Australia drew level thanks to Smith's stunning negotiation of a brilliant England attack.
6. 162 v India, Adelaide, December 2014
Steve Smith has, in recent months, been credited for the battle out in the middle that he has engaged in with Jofra Archer as proper Test match cricket.
However it was the mental battle that he dealt with on this occasion that really stood out.
True, David Warner and Michael Clarke had already brought up their hundreds so there was no rescue mission here, but it was an emotional affair after Australia took to the field for the first time in Test cricket in 2014-15 since the death of Phillip Hughes.
There were the usual Steve Smith trademark shots, opening the face into the offside and whipping the ball on the leg, it was the battle in the head following the tragic news which made this innings all the more impressive.
5. 109 v India, Pune, February 2017
A first Australia win in India for 13 years was the prize, but a gritty and uneasy century in Pune was the necessary output to achieve that goal.
A man who has achieved so much in the first innings of matches dug in in the second to counteract the threat posed by Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja who were extracting significant turn from a pitch conducive to spin bowling.
However, unfazed by the ball beating the bat on several occasions, Smith bided his time and used his feet admirably to put Australia in a winning position, which they would eventually take advantage of an take the lead in the series.
4. 239 v England, Perth, December 2017
Coming in when Craig Overton had taken the two quick wickets of David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, Australia once again leant on their reliable anchor to steer them away from trouble and into a winning position courtesy of Smith's current highest score.
The pull over deep square leg for six off Stuart Broad was perhaps the anomaly in an otherwise typical Smith innings, hitting to all parts of the wicket and forcing Joe Root to adopt some pretty unconventional legside field placings.
His innings ensured Australia did not have to bat again as they reclaimed the Ashes in Perth, and it was the sheer dominace he displayed over every single England bowler that truly stood out.
Smith's 239 at Perth is his current highest score at the international level
3. 100 v South Africa, Centurion, February 2014
Bang on the landmark, but the conditions on offer and the situation Australia had found themselves in made this a compelling watch.
A spicy Centurion wicket facing Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander would not have been Steve Smith's ideal scenario when coming into to bat at 98 for 4 on day one.
However, negotiation and compact rearguard action ensured that he piled on 233 runs with Shaun Marsh to not only defy a varied Proteas attack but also lifted his team to a matchwinning 397 before some Mitchell Johnson magic.
Hitting a solitary boundary in his first 50 balls, the mantra of sticking around to take advantage later was no more on display than the innings he played here.
2. 211 v England, Manchester, September 2019
Fresh in the memory, but nonetheless a mighty impressive, extraordinary effort, albeit amongst some pretty awkward idiosyncratic movements.
A shake of the right arm and some hairy moments coming down the pitch to Jack Leach was overshadowed by an impeccable ability to whip the ball into legside when in his zone without fail.
There were chances, namely a caught and bowled for Jofra Archer and a reprieve after Jack Leach had overstepped having dismissed him caught at slip by Ben Stokes, yet there did not appear to be many stages in which he was truly troubled.
Some glorious stand and deliver off drives with some wristy flicks through the onside, a third double century against England and his international career saw him earn plaudits from all quarters. It is what happens next which could be the most interesting part in Smith's topsy-turvy career.
1. 144 v England, Birmingham, August 2019
After talk of double hundreds and near misses, a century which does not even verge on such a landmark would appear to be quite an unusual choice.
However, that would be to complete ignore the context of which this brilliant show of batsmanship was brought about.
Australia were reeling at 122 for 8 in the first innings of the first Test at Edgbaston, but among all the wickets England's bowlers took there was one immovable player.
That player was Smith himself and with support from Peter Siddle and Nathan Lyon he went on to once again rescue Australia from a perilous position to a score of 284 all out.
The pitch improved for batting and Australia would go on to take a lead in the current Ashes series, which was only brought into check by another outstanding individual effort from Ben Stokes at Headingley.
Who knows where Australia would be without their key man right now.