Robert Gary Thomas Smith (born 24 October 1974) is an Australian-born 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 who played in New Zealand. He played six first-class and two

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 ...

during the 2001–02 season. Smith was born at

Sutherland Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later ...

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

in 1974.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 Sydney Grade Cricket for Sutherland District Cricket Club, taking 257 first grade wickets over 10 seasons, and played age-group and Second XI cricket for New South Wales between 1993–94 and 1997–98 and for the Queensland Academy of Sport in 1999–2000.Rob Smith
CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2024. He was a member of the New South Wales and Queensland Sheffield Shield squads and played Second XI cricket in the United Kingdom for

Glamorgan County Cricket Club Glamorgan County Cricket Club ( cy, Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Glamorgan ( cy, Morgannwg). Founded in 1888, ...

. A qualified teacher, Smith moved to New Zealand to complete a masters degree in Sports Marketing and Management. He made his first-class debut for Otago in November 2001 against Northern Districts, scoring 20 runs and not taking a wicket on debut. Primarily a leg-spin bowler, he took 12 first-class and two List A wickets for Otago during the season. Smith played Hawke Cup cricket for

North Otago North Otago in New Zealand covers the area of Otago between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama (which has experienced rapid growth as a developing centre for astronomy and for glid ...

during the 2008–09 season. He was later heavily involved in the development of cricket in the USA though his involvement with the US Womens National Team, Major League Cricket and

ProCricket The history of United States cricket begins in the 18th century. The first game was between the USA and Canada and held in 1844 in front of an audience of 5,000 spectators in New York. Among early Americans, cricket was as popular a bat and bal ...

. Smith returned to Australia where he has been involved in Queensland Womens Premier cricket.

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