Ernest Smith (cricketer, born 1869)

Ernest Smith (19 October 1869 – 9 April 1945) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played twenty one games for Oxford University from 1888 to 1891, 154 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1888 to 1907,[1] and four for the MCC from 1892 to 1902.

Smith was born in Morley, Yorkshire, and educated at Clifton College and University College, Oxford.[2] He also played cricket for Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present (1890), fifteen matches for The Gentlemen (1891-1906), North of England (1891-1908), Gentlemen of England (1891-1910) and C. I. Thornton's XI (1892-1899). He also played first-class cricket for Over 30 (1901), Lancashire and Yorkshire (1903), Rest of England (1904), in twenty seven games for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI (1909-1928) and for Harlequins (1924).

In a total of 242 first-class matches, Smith scored 7,686 runs at 21.46, with a highest score of 164 not out for H. D. G Leveson-Gower's XI against Cambridge University. He scored six centuries, and took 174 catches. A right arm fast bowler, Smith took 454 wickets at 25.69, with a best return of 7 for 40 against the MCC. He took five wickets in an innings twenty two times, and ten wickets in a match on three occasions.

Smith died in April 1945 in Eastbourne, Sussex.

His brother, A. E. Smith, played one first-class game for the 'English Residents' in 1890.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
  2. ↑ SMITH, Ernest, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  3. ↑ "AE Smith". CricketArchive.
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