Nicholas George Stanley Smith (born 6 August 1946) is a New Zealand former

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 played

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for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

during the 1969–70 season and

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in 1971–72. Smith was born at

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

in 1946.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 123. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played age-group cricket for Otago during the 1968–69 season before making his senior representative debut the following season. In his only match for the senior side, Smith, who played primarily as a bowler, opened the bowling for Otago but did not take a wicket against

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in January 1970. During the 1971–72 season he played two

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matches and a further first-class match for Auckland, taking six first-class and a single List A wicket.Nicholas Smith
CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2024.

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* 1946 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Auckland cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1940s-stub