deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 5285 1 january 2009 1 17/0 1947-1954 1 november 1926 right-arm fast-medium 0 australia sale , victoria , australia queensland 3 right-handed batsman cyril smith cyril robert smith south brisbane , queensland , australia first-class opening bowler http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/16/16706/16706.html cricketarchive 1926 11 1 yes 186 71 0/0 27 cyril smith -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

cyril smith -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

cyril robert smith -lrb- 1 november 1926 -- 1 january 2009 -rrb- was an australian first-class cricketer who played sheffield shield cricket for queensland .
he also represented his state in australian rules football .
smith , who played his football as a ruckman , had an imposing figure , standing two metres tall and weighing 100 kg .
on the cricket field he was a fast-medium paceman , who opening the bowling , usually with len johnson .
he played regularly in the queensland australian national football league for yeronga and in 1950 was picked in the state squad to go to the brisbane carnival , only to withdraw with an injury .
the queenslander made his first-class cricket debut in the 1946/47 season , against the touring indian team , but failed to pick up a wicket .
he went for 75 runs in the first innings and then 42 from just five overs in the second .
another opportunity came two years later and from then until 1953/54 he missed few matches for queensland .
in the 1951/52 sheffield shield season , smith took 20 wickets at 28.65 , the best return of his career .
he had also taken his innings figures , 7-58 , in a match against victoria at the scg .
it was the first time in sheffield shield history that a queensland bowler had taken victorian wickets in one innings .
the victorians continued to see the best of smith throughout his career , with his final tally showing 32 wickets at 23.34 .
he played another international side that season , with the west indies in the country for a test series .
although he only took two wickets , both of them were an opening batsman , jeff stollmeyer .
another test batsman who smith had success with over the course of his career was sam loxton , whom he dismissed five times in first-class cricket .
he was invited by footscray president , con weichart , to train with the victorian football league club in april 1952 .
weichart had spotted smith at the mcg , when he was playing a shield match against victoria , and was impressed by his agility .
he trained with coach charlie sutton for two weeks but in the end decided to stay in queensland .
footscray instead debuted ruckman brian gilmore in 1952 , who would play in the club 's first ever premiership in 1954 .
after returns of 19 wickets at 31.57 and 16 wickets in 35.37 , over the next two shield season , smith was n't picked again for queensland .
the selectors had needed to drop a bowler , in order to fit former new south wales bowling all-rounder ray lindwall in the team , and smith was the one to make way .
