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Full name Christopher Lyall Smith
Born October 15, 1958, Durban, Natal, South Africa
Current age 49 years 362 days
Major teams England,Glamorgan,Hampshire,Natal
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Other Administrator
Relations Brother - RA Smith
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
8
14
1
392
91
30.15
1314
29.83
0
2
44
0
5
0
ODIs
4
4
0
109
70
27.25
240
45.41
0
1
19
1
0
0
First-class
269
466
60
18028
217
44.40
47
88
176
0
List A
214
197
39
6700
159
42.40
11
42
39
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
8
4
102
39
3
2/31
2/31
13.00
2.29
34.0
0
0
0
ODIs
4
2
36
28
2
2/8
2/8
14.00
4.66
18.0
0
0
0
First-class
269
4457
2685
50
5/69
53.70
3.61
89.1
1
0
List A
214
171
114
10
3/32
3/32
11.40
4.00
17.1
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v New Zealand at Lord's, Aug 11-15, 1983 scorecard
Last Test
England v India at Leeds, Jun 19-23, 1986 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v England at Christchurch, Feb 18, 1984 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v England at Karachi, Mar 26, 1984 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1977/78 - 1991
List A span
1980 - 1991
Profile
Chris Smith, who qualified for England by virtue of his English parents, was born in Durban on this day. Keen to pursue a career in cricket and frustrated by the apartheid-era ban on international sport with South Africa, he left to
try his luck in England having previously toured the country with Kingsmead
Mynahs (essentially Natal U-25s) in 1976. Though not as naturally talented as his younger brother Robin, he made himself into a very fine county batsman for Hampshire with a first-class average in the mid- forties. Smith's success was a triumph of nurture over nature, but he only played eight Tests. He went first ball to Richard Hadlee on debut at Lord's in 1983 but had a decent winter in 1983-84, hitting 91 at Auckland and 66 at Faisalabad. For some reason he wasn't picked against West Indies in 1984 and played only one more Test. He went on to become chief executive of the WACA in Perth.
Rob Smyth
