David Smith (Gloucestershire cricketer)

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David Smith England (ENG)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium-fast
	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	72581
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/-
Test debut: 11 November 1961 Last Test: 10 January 1962 Source: [1]

David Robert Smith (born October 5, 1934, Fishponds, Bristol, died December 17, 2003, Bristol) was an English cricketer who played in five Tests in India in 1961-62.

David Smith was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a medium-fast right-arm bowler who played for Gloucestershire for 15 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 fairly forthright style.

Smith's only Test cricket came on a 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 – the others were Butch White and Alan Brown. Smith played in only the five Indian Tests, missing the three in Pakistan, and took only 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.

Smith was also a footballer who played at outside-left for Bristol City and Millwall (Wisden obituary).