Andrew Michael Smith (born 1 October 1967) is a former English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He was born at
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...
in
Yorkshire.
Smith was an effective
swing bowler
Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. Practitioners are known as swing bowlers. Swing bowling is generally classed as a subtype of fast bowling.
The aim of swing bowling is to cause the ball to move in the ai ...
for
Gloucestershire, and played a single Test for
England at
Headingley in 1997 against Australia.
[Mike Smith]
CricInfo
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. Retrieved 2018-08-07. Graham Thorpe dropped
Matthew Elliott at first slip while on 29,
for what would have been Smith's first (and only) Test wicket. Elliot went on to make 199 and Australia won comfortably by an innings.
He was never picked to play for England again, but remained one of the most consistent swing bowlers on the county circuit until his retirement in 2003. He later worked as an employment solicitor at
Bevan Brittan in
Bristol.
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1967 births
Living people
England Test cricketers
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
Cricketers from Yorkshire
British Universities cricketers