Ernest Smith (cricketer, born 1869)

Ernest Smith
Personal information
Born 19 October 1869
Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died 9 April 1945 (aged 75)
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Batting Right-hand
Bowling Right-arm fast
Relations brother: A. E. Smith
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1888–1891 Oxford University
1888–1907 Yorkshire County Cricket Club
1892–1902 Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 242
Runs scored 7686
Batting average 21.46
100s/50s 6/22
Top score 164
Balls bowled 22774
Wickets 454
Bowling average 25.69
5 wickets in innings 22
10 wickets in match 3
Best bowling 7/40
Catches/stumpings 174/0
Source: Ernest Smith. Cricinfo

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 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1892 to 1902.

Smith was born in Morley, West Riding of 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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