Ed Smith (cricketer)

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Ed Smith England (ENG)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium-fast
	Tests	First-class
Matches	3	168
Runs scored	87	1173
Batting average	17.40	40.62
100s/50s	-/1	29/46
Top score	64	213
Balls bowled	-	72
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	5/-	73/-
Test debut: 14 August 2003 Last Test: 4 September 2003 Source: [1]

Edward Thomas Smith, MA (born 19 July 1977, Pembury, Kent, UK) is an English cricketer, author and journalist.

He is the son of the novelist Jonathan Smith. He was educated at Tonbridge School (where he was in the dayboy house Welldon House) and he read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he obtained a double first, despite devoting much of his time to cricket.

He has played three home Test matches for England versus South Africa in 2003. He made 64 on debut, but put together 23 runs in his next four innings, and was dropped for the subsequent tour of the subcontinent.

He is a tall right-handed batsman with a penchant for the drive and has represented England, Cambridge University, Kent and Middlesex. During ten years of first-class cricket, he has scored 29 centuries. After the 2004 season, he moved clubs from Kent, his county of birth, to Middlesex. He has been appointed as the 27th County Captain of Middlesex for the 2007 season, succeeding Ben Hutton.

In 2003 he had a Bradmanesque July for Kent: 135, 0, 122, 149, 113, 203, 36, 108, 32. He averaged 72.99 for the 2003 first-class season when selected for England.

He has written a book titled Playing Hard Ball which describes his interest in the game, psychology, history and mythology of American baseball and compares it to Cricket. His diary of the eventful 2003 season, On and Off the Field was highly praised, and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and The Cricket Society Book of the Year Award in 2004. He has also contributed book reviews for the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.