Dennis Smith (New Zealand cricketer)

Dennis Smith

Cricket information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm fast
International information
National side	New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1931-32 to 1932-33	Otago
1933-34	Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 1 11 Runs scored 4 404 Batting average 4.00 22.44 100s/50s 0/0 0/1 Top score 4 52 Balls bowled 120 1065 Wickets 1 17 Bowling average 113.00 33.52 5 wickets in innings – – 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling 1/113 3/41 Catches/stumpings –/– 6/–
Source: Cricinfo

Horace Dennis Smith (8 January 1913 in Toowoomba, Australia – 25 January 1986 in Christchurch, Canterbury) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1933.

A fast bowler, he took his only Test wicket with his first delivery, the tenth Test bowler to achieve the feat.^[1] The wicket came against England in the First Test in 1932–33 when he bowled Eddie Paynter, but he sent down another 119 deliveries without success.

Smith played only 11 games of first-class cricket. He made his debut for Otago in 1931-32 at the age of 18. In the three matches in the Plunket Shield in 1932-33 he scored 147 runs at 36.75, with a top score of 52,^[2] and took seven wickets at 14.00,^[3] helping Otago to win the Plunket Shield. A few weeks later Smith opened the New Zealand attack in the First Test with his Otago colleague Ted Badcock. He was replaced by another Otago colleague, Jack Dunning, for the Second Test, when he served as twelfth man.^[4]

He transferred to Canterbury for the 1933-34 season but was less effective, and he played his last first-class match not long after he turned 21.

References

1. Tests – Wicket with first ball in career, Cricinfo, 9 October 2013
2. 1932-33 Plunket Shield batting averages
3. 1932-33 Plunket Shield bowling averages
4. Wisden 1987, p. 1247.

External links

• Dennis Smith at Cricinfo
• Dennis Smith at Cricket Archive