Dwayne Romel Smith (born 12 April 1983) is a former Barbadian international cricketer who has represented the West Indies in all three formats of the game.

[1] Smith previously held the record for the highest strike rate of 414.28 in a T20I innings,[2] before it was broken by Harry Brook in 2023.

[8] It was not until October 2003 that Smith played his first List-A match, scoring a duck on his debut against Antigua and Barbuda in the 2003–04 Red Stripe Bowl.

[12] He also won the 2014 CPL title with the Barbados Tridents, scoring a match winning 59 in the final against the Guyana Amazon Warriors.

[15] In 2008 Smith was added to the Mumbai Indians squad during the inaugural IPL season, he replaced his national teammate Dwayne Bravo.

On 6 May 2012, he played a vital role in the win of Mumbai Indians against Chennai Super Kings, when he hit Ben Hilfenhaus to the fence thrice in a row – a 6, followed by two consecutive 4s, when 14 runs were required off the last three balls.

In the Final of 2016 season Smith won the Man of the Match award after he took United to title victory by scoring 73 from 51 balls.

Sussex reached two finals in the season, the first of which, the Friends Provident Trophy they lost to Hampshire with Smith scoring 20.

[27] The next final was to be more successful for Smith as Sussex beat Somerset in the Twenty20 Cup with him earning the man of the match award in scoring 59.

[39] Following the 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl, Smith was included in the West Indies squad to tour South Africa.

After a poor performance in the triangular ODI tournament (also involving New Zealand), where he averaged 4.20 with the bat[45] and 56.33 with the ball,[46] he was forced to return home after injuring his shoulder in the final Test.

The West Indies failed to qualify for the final but Smith finished the tournament with respectable averages of 31.75 with the bat[49] and 40.00 with the ball.

[50] In the early 2006 tour against New Zealand, Smith made his biggest bowling contribution yet to the West Indies team, taking 9 wickets at an impressive average of 24.33.

[52] Smith made his Twenty20 International debut during the tour, scoring 9 runs and taking 2 wickets in a tied match.

[54] Although the West Indies, who were defending the title they won in 2004, reached the final, Smith made little contribution with bat or ball.

Smith ended a gap of nearly two and a half years out of the West Indies side when he was called up to the squad for the ODI and T20I series in Australia in early 2010.

Although Smith performed well, averaging 43.33 with the bat[57] and 32.71 with the ball, the West Indies were soundly beaten 4–0 in the ODI series.