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Post by hhsussex on Jan 4, 2017 16:11:04 GMT
One of the last of the August amateurs, and no doubt one of the names in the little black notebook Cowdrey was given on his appointment to the captaincy, as he says in M.C.C. In the mid-50s he was very successful in most of his 8 or 10 game stints at a time when the Kent bowling was Wright, Ridgeway and Page plus whatever amateurs or undergraduates were available. www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#Geoff%20Smith |
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Post by gmdf on Jan 4, 2017 17:50:54 GMT
One of the last of the August amateurs, and no doubt one of the names in the little black notebook Cowdrey was given on his appointment to the captaincy, as he says in M.C.C. In the mid-50s he was very successful in most of his 8 or 10 game stints at a time when the Kent bowling was Wright, Ridgeway and Page plus whatever amateurs or undergraduates were available. www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#Geoff%20SmithHis death was reported at the end of November here: www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/former-kent-bowler-geoff-smith-dies-aged-90It's a good record for an amateur bowler - 165 wickets at 22.82. He was Kent's oldest surviving capped player at 90. PS Of personal interest I see from the PCA obituary that he was a student at Christ's Hospital, as was my late father. It's just possible that they overlapped, but more likely my father left a year or so before Smith went there. |
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