Jack Smith

Who is Jack Smith?

Jack Smith is a former English cricketer. Smith was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Stotfold, Bedfordshire.

Smith made his debut for Bedfordshire against Cambridgeshire in the 1959 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire from 1959 to 1975, making 128 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He made his List A debut against Northamptonshire in the 1967 Gillette Cup. He made 5 further List A appearances, the last of which came against Lancashire in the 1973 Gillette Cup. In his 6 List A matches for Bedfordshire, he scored 21 runs at an average of 7.00, with a high score of 8. With the ball, he took 5 wickets at a bowling average of 50.00, with best figures of 2/41.

He made a single first-class appearance for the Minor Counties against the touring South Africans in 1965. In this match, he took the wickets of Tiger Lance and Denis Lindsay in the South Africans first-innings, for the cost of 52 runs from 22 overs. In the South Africans second-innings he took the wickets of Lindsay and Colin Bland for the cost of 47 runs from 13 overs.