David Smith (Gloucestershire cricketer)

David Smith (Gloucestershire cricketer)
David Smith
Personal information
Full name David Robert Smith
Born 5 October 1934(1934-10-05)
Fishponds, Bristol, England
Died 17 December 2003(2003-12-17) (aged 69)
Bristol, England
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
International information
National side English
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 5 386
Runs scored 38 4966
Batting average 9.50 12.32
100s/50s –/– –/6
Top score 34 74
Balls bowled 972 72,581
Wickets 6 1250
Bowling average 59.83 23.72
5 wickets in innings 51
10 wickets in match 6
Best bowling 2/60 7/20
Catches/stumpings 2/– 294/–
Source: [1],

David Smith (5 October 1934[1] – 17 December 2003) was an English cricketer, who played in five Tests for England in India in 1961-1962.

He was one of a trio of pace bowlers, along with Alan Brown and Butch White, who were given their opportunity on the eight Test, five month long tour of India and Pakistan. However, his efforts in the heat and dust of the Indian subcontinent, did not do sufficient to earn him a chance to bowl in an England Test series at home.[1]

Life and career

David Robert Smith was born in Fishponds, Bristol.

He was a lower-order right-handed batsman, and a medium-fast right-arm bowler, who played for Gloucestershire for fifteen seasons from 1956, usually opening the bowling in partnership with Tony Brown. He was a successful county bowler at slightly above medium-pace, able to move the ball off the seam in both directions, and in five seasons he took more than 100 wickets, with a best of 143 wickets in 1960. In a team that was packed with all-rounders, Smith tended to bat fairly low, but he occasionally made useful runs, often in a fairly forthright style.

Smith's only Test cricket came on the long, and by modern standards, arduous MCC tour that started in Pakistan, moved on to India, took in Sri Lanka and then returned to Pakistan, in 1961-62. Leading England fast bowlers such as Fred Trueman and Brian Statham opted out of the tour, and Smith was one of three seam bowlers whose only experience of Test cricket came on the tour. Smith played in only the five Indian Tests, missing the three in Pakistan, and took six wickets in a series dominated by spin bowling. The regular Test fast bowlers resumed their careers in the 1962 English season, and Smith was never selected again.[1]

Smith was also a footballer who played at outside-left for Bristol City[2] and Millwall.[3][4]

David Smith died in Bristol in December 2003, at the age of 69.

References

  1. ^ a b c Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 154. ISBN 1-869833-21-X. 
  2. ^ "BRISTOL CITY : 1946/47 - 2008/09". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database. http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/bristolcity/bristolcity.htm. Retrieved 2 April 2010. 
  3. ^ (Wisden obituary)
  4. ^ "MILLWALL : 1946/47 - 2008/09". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database. http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/millwall/millwall.htm. Retrieved 2 April 2010. 

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