Stuart Campbell Smith (19 September 1868 – date of death unknown) was an
Irish first-class
cricket
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er.
Smith was born at
Rathmines in
Dublin in August 1868.
A high scoring batsman in club cricket for
Leinster,
Smith first appeared for
Ireland in a minor match against
I Zingari
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at Dublin in 1891 (four years earlier he had played for the
Gentlemen of Ireland against the Gentlemen of Canada).
He continued to appear regularly for Ireland in minor cricket from 1891–1908.
He made his debut in
first-class cricket for Ireland at the age of 40, against the touring
South Africans at
Dublin.
He played two further first-class matches for Ireland in 1908 at Dublin, against the touring
Gentlemen of Philadelphia
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, and
Yorkshire.
Despite being a heavy scorer at club level, he failed to repeat this at first-class level, scoring just 19 runs at an
average of 3.16 across his three matches.
He played for
Stanley Cochrane's Woodbrook Club and Ground in a minor match against
Hampshire in 1909.
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1868 births
Date of death unknown
Cricketers from Dublin (city)
Irish cricketers