Ed Smith (cricketer)

Ed Smith (cricketer)

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Ed Smith


country = England
fullname = Edward Thomas Smith
nickname = Smudge
living = true
dayofbirth = 19
monthofbirth = 7
yearofbirth = 1977
placeofbirth = Pembury, Kent
countryofbirth = England
heightft = 6
heightinch = 2
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right arm medium
role = Batsman, author
international = true
testdebutdate = 14 August
testdebutyear = 2003
testdebutagainst = South Africa
testc

lasttestdate = 4 September
lasttestyear = 2003
lasttestagainst = South Africa
club1 = Middlesex
year1 = 2005 –
clubnumber1 =
club2 = Kent
year2 = 1996 – 2004
clubnumber2 =
deliveries = balls
columns = 3
column1 = Tests
matches1 = 3
runs1 = 87
bat avg1 = 17.40
100s/50s1 = 0/1
top score1 = 64
deliveries1 = 0
wickets1 = –
bowl avg1 = –
fivefor1 = –
tenfor1 = –
best bowling1 = –
catches/stumpings1 = 5/–
column2 = FC
matches2 = 185
runs2 = 12392
bat avg2 = 41.86
100s/50s2 = 34/50
top score2 = 213
deliveries2 = 108
wickets2 = 1
bowl avg2 = 119.00
fivefor2 = –
tenfor2 = –
best bowling2 = 1/60
catches/stumpings2 = 82/–
column3 = LA
matches3 = 129
runs3 = 3668
bat avg3 = 31.35
100s/50s3 = 2/25
top score3 = 122
deliveries3 = 0
wickets3 = –
bowl avg3 = –
fivefor3 = –
tenfor3 = –
best bowling3 = –
catches/stumpings3 = 27/–
date = 5 April
year = 2008
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/20242.html Cricinfo

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 made a century on his first-class debut in 1996, for Cambridge University.

Smith 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.

Smith 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 31 centuries. After the 2004 season, he moved clubs from Kent, his county of birth, to Middlesex. He was 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 he was selected for England.

Smith 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 cricket book reviews for the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and history book reviews for the Sunday Telegraph. His most recent book, published in May 2008, is titled What Sport Tells Us About Life, a discussion of the role of sport in society, and its moral and ethical lessons.

External links

* [http://content.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/20242.html Cricinfo profile]
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com Cricket Archive]


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