Ernest Smith

Who was Ernest Smith?

Ernest Smith 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, and four for the MCC from 1892 to 1902.

Smith was born in Morley, Yorkshire, England. He also played for Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present, fifteen matches for The Gentlemen, North of England, Gentlemen of England and C. I. Thornton's XI. He also played first-class cricket for Over 30, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Rest of England, in twenty seven games for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI and for Harlequins.

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 February 1945 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England.