Australia captain Steve Smith has become the first Test batsman to score 1,000-plus runs and average over 70 in a calendar year for the fourth successive time. Smith, who scored 1,079 runs at 71.93 last year, ended 2017 with 1,305 runs at 76.76. In 2014, Smith amassed 1,146 runs at 81.85 while he hit 1,474 runs at 73.70 in 2015.