Alan Smith (cricketer)
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| Full name | Alan Christopher Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 October 1936 Hall Green, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 30 November 1962 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 15 March 1963 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alan Christopher Smith, known as A. C. Smith (born 25 October 1936, Hall Green, Birmingham, Warwickshire) is an English former Test cricketer, who appeared in six Tests for England. Primarily a wicket-keeper, Smith was also a capable right-handed middle-order batsman and right-arm seam bowler. Very unusually for a regular wicket-keeper, he was sometimes selected by Warwickshire as a frontline bowler.
He was the last amateur to play for England, before the MCC abolished such a status.
Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Brasenose College, Oxford, Smith scored his maiden first-class century (106, opening the batting) for Oxford University against the MCC in 1958. He won blues 1957–1960, and captained Oxford University 1959–1960. Against Hampshire in 1959, Smith captained Oxford, kept wicket and scored centuries in both innings (145 and 124). Against the Free Foresters in 1960, Charles Fry's deputising as wicket-keeper allowed Smith to bowl himself; having never previously taken more than a single first-class wicket in an innings, he claimed figures of 5–32 and 4–45.
With Jim Parks, Jr. incumbent as England's wicket-keeper, Smith's international opportunities were limited to one tour of Australia and New Zealand under the captaincy of Ted Dexter in 1962–63. Smith failed with the bat in his four Tests against Australia; his score of 69 not out from number 10 in the first Test against New Zealand, sharing a vital unbroken 163-run partnership with Colin Cowdrey to set up an innings victory, was his only batting contribution of note.
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