Rhiane Andrew Smith (born 17 May 1974) 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 six first-class and 11

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

matches 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 ...

between the 1992–93 and 1995–66 seasons. Smith was born at Owaka in

in 1974 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in

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.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 and Second XI cricket for Otago before making his senior debut for the side in a January 1993 List A match against

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. Later in the 1992–93 season, Smith played for the national under-19 side against the touring Australian under-19 side. The following season he made his first-class debut for Otago before touring Pakistan with the New Zealand under-19 team in January and February 1994. Primarily a bowler, he took a total of eight first-class and 10 List A wickets in a senior career which spanned four seasons.Rhiane Smith
CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2024. In 1996–97 Smith played for

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in the Hawke Cup. He has since worked as a centenary sales representative. He has coached the

Otago Country cricket team The Otago Country cricket team represents the Central Otago and South Otago regions of New Zealand. It competes in the Hawke Cup. Its parent organisation is the Otago Country Cricket Association, which is based in Alexandra. Central Otago The ...

and played club cricket in Clutha.Hepburn S (2001
Smith and sons - family game in Clutha
''

Otago Daily Times The ''Otago Daily Times'' (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ''ODT'' is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a c ...

'', 9 February 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2024.

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* 1974 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers People from Owaka People educated at Otago Boys' High School {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1970s-stub