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Full name | Richard Ian Smyth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bishopwearmouth, County Durham, England | 19 November 1951|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1974 | Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1973–1975 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,31 December 2011 |
Richard Ian Smyth (born 19 November 1951) is an English school headmaster and cricketer.
Smyth was born at Bishopwearmouth,County Durham,and educated at Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College,Cambridge,where he gained a BA degree and PGCE. [1]
Smyth was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break,and who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. While studying at the University of Cambridge,he made his first-class cricket debut for Cambridge University against Warwickshire in 1973. He made nineteen further first-class appearances for the university,the last of which came against Oxford University in the 1975 The University Match at Lord's. [2] In his twenty first-class appearances for Oxford University,he scored a total of 679 runs at an average of 18.35,with a high score of 61. [3] This score was one of three fifties he made and came against Yorkshire in 1974. [4] He also made a single first-class appearance for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities side against the touring Indians in 1974. [2] Cambridge University took part in the 1974 Benson &Hedges Cup,with Smyth making his List A debut in that tournament against Kent. He played three further List A matches during that competition,against Essex,Surrey and Sussex. [5] In his four List A matches,Smyth scored a total of 39 runs at an average of 9.75,with a high score of 21. [6]
He played a single Minor Counties Championship match for his native Durham against Shropshire in 1974. [7]
Smyth was an assistant master at Christ's Hospital and at Gresham's School,a housemaster at Wellington College,headmaster of King's School,Bruton,1993–2004 and of St Peter's School,York 2004–09,and Principal of Fulwood Academy 2010–14. [1]
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