Geoffrey Brunton Smith (born 22 November 1953) is a former

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who played first-class and

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for

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from 1977 to 1979. His father,

Brun Smith Frank Brunton Smith (13 March 1922 – 6 July 1997) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in four Tests between 1947 and 1952. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1946 to 1953. His father Frank played for Canterbury in the 1920s; ...

, played

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for

, and his grandfather, Frank Smith, played first-class cricket for Canterbury in the 1920s. Smith was a member of the New Zealand schools cricket team that toured Australia in 1970–71. In first-class cricket he scored 22 and 31 for Canterbury against

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in 1978–79; he and

Barry Hadlee Barry George Hadlee (born 14 December 1941) is a former cricketer from New Zealand. He was a right-handed opening batsman. In a first-class career lasting from 1961–62 to 1980–81, he represented Canterbury 84 times. Family Hadlee was born ...

put on 68 and 64 respectively for the opening partnership. Later that season he made 11 and 31 against

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, putting on opening partnerships of 51 and 54 with Hadlee.

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