deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 54 9 july 1975 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1930/31 1928 2011 25 march 1904 & ndash ; england st columb major , cornwall , england bengal governor 's xi devon & ndash ; ernest meade smythe ealing , middlesex , england first-class http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/34439.html cricinfo 1904 3 25 yes 7 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1 ernest smythe

ernest smythe

ernest meade smythe -lrb- 25 march 1904 -- 9 july 1975 -rrb- was an english cricketer and indian army officer .
his batting and bowling styles are unknown .
he was born in ealing , middlesex and educated at allhallows school in somerset .
smythe played for devon in the 1928 minor counties championship , playing three matches against the kent second xi , the surrey second xi and cornwall .
in november 1930 , he played his only first-class match for the bengal governor 's xi against the bengal governor 's xi v maharaj kumar of vizianagram 's xi at eden gardens , calcutta .
in the bengal first-innings he scored 1 run before being dismissed by ghulam mohammad and in their second-innings he scored 6 runs before being dismissed by mushtaq ali .
with the ball he took a single wicket , that of c.r. nayudu for the cost of 19 runs .
with the japanese declaration of war against the british empire during world war ii , smythe was drafted into the indian army as an emergency commission in february 1942 , holding the rank of 2nd lieutenant .
he died in st columb major , cornwall on 9 july 1975 .
