Clay Smith (cricketer)
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15 January 1971 Bermuda |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm off-spin | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Wendell Smith (brother) | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: ESPNcricinfo, 25 March 2016 | |||||||||||||||
Clay James Smith (born 15 January 1971) is a former Bermudian international cricketer who represented the Bermudian national team between 1991 and 2007. He is Bermuda's current head coach, having been appointed in December 2015.
Having debuted for Bermuda in 1991, Smith first came to notice at the 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya, where he ranked fourth in overall runs scored and helped his team to the semi-finals. He remained one of Bermuda's leading batsmen for over a decade, appearing in another three ICC Trophy tournaments and also in several editions of the West Indian domestic one-day competition (where Bermuda competed as a guest team). In the 1997–98 Red Stripe Bowl, Smith scored two centuries (against the Windward Islands and Jamaica), becoming the first Bermudian to score a List A hundred. He was appointed captain of Bermuda in 2004, and served in the position until the end of 2006, although he missed a number of matches due to injury towards the end of his tenure. Smith retired from international cricket after the 2007 World Cup.
Smith was born into a sporting family. His father, Mansfield Smith, was a club cricketer and later a prominent sports administrator, while his older brother, Wendell Smith, also played cricket for Bermuda. Another brother, Ray, was an all-round sportsman best known as a boxer, serving as Bermuda's middleweight champion for a period. A former Bermuda under-19s player, Clay Smith made his senior debut for Bermuda in 1991, playing against a touring team from India's Hyderabad Cricket Association. He was selected for his first international tour the following year, when Bermuda toured England. At the 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya, Smith played in all nine of Bermuda's matches, scoring 391 runs at an average of 55.85. Only two players (teammate Dexter Smith and the Netherlands' Nolan Clarke) scored more runs, while Kenya's Maurice Odumbe scored the same number as Smith (at a better average, however). Smith's highest score was an innings of 108 in Bermuda's semi-final loss to Kenya, while he also scored 89 against Ireland, 71 against the United Arab Emirates, and 51 against Denmark.
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