Alan Smith (cricketer)

Alan Smith
Personal information
Full name
Alan Christopher Smith
Born (1936-10-25) 25 October 1936 (age 87)
Hall Green, Birmingham, Warwickshire
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut30 November 1962 v Australia
Last Test15 March 1963 v New Zealand
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA
Matches 6 428 82
Runs scored 118 11,027 594
Batting average 29.50 20.92 14.14
100s/50s 0/1 3/38 0/0
Top score 69* 145 39*
Balls bowled 7,158 1,038
Wickets 131 19
Bowling average 23.46 33.68
5 wickets in innings 2 1
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 5/32 5/19
Catches/stumpings 20/– 715/61 58/2
Source: Cricinfo, 17 November 2022

Alan Christopher Smith CBE (born 25 October 1936),[1] often known as A. C. Smith, is an English former Test cricketer, who appeared in six Tests matches 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 in the last group of amateurs to play for England, before the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) abolished such a status.[1]

  1. ^ a b Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 149. ISBN 1-869833-21-X.