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Full name | Christopher Lyall Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Durban, Natal, South Africa | 15 October 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Kippy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Robin Smith (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut(cap 503) | 11 August 1983 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 19 June 1986 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 72) | 18 February 1984 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 26 March 1984 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1977/78–1982/83 | Natal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1979 | Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1980–1991 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,18 December 2008 |
Christopher Lyall Smith (born 15 October 1958) was a cricketer for Hampshire and England. He also played one match for Glamorgan in 1979,while playing in the South Wales League,and in South Africa he played for Natal B (then a first-class team).
Born on 15 October 1958 in Durban,South Africa, [1] Smith was unable to play for the South Africa due to their exclusion from international sport because of the apartheid regime,but played for England through his parents' nationality. Ironically his opportunity was assisted by the fact that a number of alternative England opening batsmen such as Graham Gooch and Wayne Larkins were banned from international cricket after participating in a rebel tour of South Africa in 1982. However,Smith played only eight Test matches,never establishing himself in the side. He had the misfortune to be dismissed by Richard Hadlee from his first ball on Test debut at Lord's in 1983 (although he made 43 in the second innings as England won the match), [2] but was selected the next winter for the tour to New Zealand and Pakistan. [3] There he made some useful contributions,including a score of 91 in Auckland. [4] Smith also played four one-day internationals in 1984 with a highest score of 70. [5] Smith was also an occasional off-spin bowler who took five cheap international wickets,including figures of 2–8 in a one-day international against Pakistan. [6] After he toured Sri Lanka with an England 'B' side in 1986, [7] his last Test came in 1986 at Leeds against India as an injury replacement for David Gower. [8] He was dropped when Gower was fit again.
Smith was much more successful for Hampshire,enjoying a successful career with that county,scoring more than 40 first-class hundreds and helping them to win the 1988 Benson &Hedges Cup, [9] and the 1991 NatWest Trophy (though missing the final of the latter). He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1984.
After he retired from first-class cricket,he settled in Western Australia,and became marketing manager of the Western Australian Cricket Association. [3]
Chris Smith is the older brother of fellow Hampshire and England Test player Robin Smith. [3] His brother made his England debut at Leeds,two years after Smith had played his last Test on the same ground,and went onto a more extensive international career.
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