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Kenneth Smales
Kenneth Smales (15 September 1927 – 10 March 2015) was an English former first-class cricketer, who played thirteen games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1948 to 1950, and 148 matches for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire from 1951 to 1958. He was born in Horsforth, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. A right arm, off break bowler, he took 389 wickets at 30.70, with a best of all ten for 66 against Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire at Stroud. He took five wickets in an innings twenty times and 10 wickets in a match on five occasions. He scored 2,512 runs at 14.43, with a best of 64 against Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Glamorgan, one of four fifties he compiled. He took 60 catches in the field. He had one Hat-trick (cricket), hat-trick to his name against Lancashire County Cricket Club, Lancashire at Trent Bridge. Smales joined Nottingham Forest F.C. in 1958 as assistant secretary, then became full-time secretary in January 1961. He went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but it was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians, and especially statisticians, with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |