Sidney Smith (14 January 1929 – 25 April 1985) was an 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 active from 1949 to 1956 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Heywood, Lancashire and died in Middleton, Lancashire. He appeared in 44

first-class matches First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

as a righthanded batsman, scoring 1,117 runs with a highest score of 101 *, his only first-class

century A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word ''century'' comes from the Latin ''centum'', meaning ''one hundred''. ''Century'' is sometimes abbreviated as c. A centennial or ...

, and held ten catches.Sidney Smith at CricketArchive
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1929 births 1985 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers Combined Services cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1920s-stub