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| Full name | Haydon Arthur Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 March 1901 Groby, Leicestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 August 1948 (aged 47) Groby, Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Terry Spencer, nephew | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925–39 | Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 20 May 1925 Leicestershire v Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 29 August 1939 Leicestershire v Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 28 July 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Haydon Arthur Smith (29 March 1901 – 7 August 1948) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire from 1925 to 1939.[1] He was born and died at Groby, Leicestershire. He was the uncle of later Leicestershire cricketer Terry Spencer.
Smith was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. Early in his career he was considered promising as a batsman and scarcely bowled, but his batting did not develop and although he often made runs he was largely "a useful hitter".[2] Unusually for the fast bowlers of his period, he was a good fielder, taking 257 catches in his 341 first-class games.[3]