Tom Smith (cricketer, born 1987)

Tom Smith

Personal information
Full name	Thomas Michael John Smith
Born	29 August 1987 Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Slow left arm orthodox
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006–2009	Sussex
2009	Surrey
2010–2013	Middlesex
2013 (on loan)	Gloucestershire
2014–	Gloucestershire (squad no. 6)
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20 Matches 39 51 78 Runs scored 1,021 244 245 Batting average 23.20 18.76 22.27 100s/50s 0/2 0/1 0/0 Top score 80 65 36* Balls bowled 5,743 1,780 1,481 Wickets 64 41 84 Bowling average 51.06 39.87 21.33 5 wickets in innings 0 0 2 10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a Best bowling 4/35 3/26 5/24 Catches/stumpings 11/– 25/– 24/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 August 2015

Thomas Michael John Smith (born 29 August 1987, Eastbourne, England) is an English cricketer who plays for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.

Career

He is a right-handed batsman and a left-arm spinner, whose professional career started at Sussex in 2006, where he played eight List A matches,^[1] two Twenty20 matches^[2] and two first-class matches^[3] with modest success. However, further opportunities were limited due to the club possessing other spin options such as Mushtaq Ahmed, Ollie Rayner, Will Beer, Piyush Chawla, Saqlain Mushtaq, Rory Hamilton-Brown and Mike Yardy, and he was loaned to Surrey in 2009,^[4] where he made two Pro 40 appearances,^[5] helping them to a four-wicket win v Leicestershire by scoring 65 off 61 balls.

By the middle of the 2009 season, it had appeared likely Smith's future lay away from Sussex, and after Middlesex managing director of Cricket Angus Fraser watched him turn out for,^[6] he signed in October for the London-based club on a contract until 2012.^[7] In the same month, he was named in an England performance squad.^[8] In his first season, he was restricted to four County Championship appearances by Shaun Udal's presence, but featured extensively in the two limited-overs competitions, and won the Man of the Match award for taking 5–24 v Kent at Lord's.^[9] It was a similar story in 2011 – when the club signed his former team-mate Rayner on loan from Sussex in a deal which later become permanent and gave a short-term contract to Jamie Dalrymple – and 2012, as he played four Championship matches in that time but continued playing the majority of the limited-overs matches.

Smith signed a one-year contract with Middlesex for 2013,^[10] and things started brightly after he was included in the team for two Championship and three Yorkshire Bank 40 matches before the end of May. However, with Rayner making himself difficult to dislodge thanks to his batting and fielding ability and improving bowling performances, and Ravi Patel emerging, Smith was loaned to Gloucestershire in a deal that was ultimately extended until the end of the season.^[11] Highlights of his time there have included a YB40 hat-trick,^[12] and a maiden first-class 50.^[13] On 24 September 2013, as the 2013 season was finishing, Smith signed a three-year deal to take him up to the end of the 2016 season.^[14]

Career best performances

as of 27 August 2015

	Batting				Bowling
	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season
FC	80	Gloucestershire v Surrey	Bristol	2014	4–35	Gloucestershire v Kent	Canterbury	2014
LA	65	Surrey Brown Caps v Leicestershire Foxes	Leicester	2009	3–26	Middlesex Panthers v Derbyshire Phantoms	Lord's	2010
T20	36*	Middlesex Panthers v Gloucestershire Gladiators	Uxbridge	2011	5–24	Middlesex Panthers v Kent Spitfires	Lord's	2010

References

1. "Cricket Archive Player Oracle". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
2. "Cricket Archive Player Oracle". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
3. "Cricket Archive Player Oracle". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
4. "Sussex's Smith makes Surrey move". BBC. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
5. "Cricket Archive Player Oracle". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
6. Taylor, Bruce. "Smith heads to Middlesex". '’The Argus'’. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
7. "Middlesex confirm the signing of Tom Smith from Sussex". Middlesex CCC Official Site. 15 October 2009. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
8. "Carberry and Moore named in Performance Squad". Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
9. "Middlesex v Kent". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
10. "Denly, Smith, Patel & Gubbins sign new contracts". Middlesex CCC. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
11. "Chris Dent: Gloucestershire batsman signs new contract". BBC. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
12. "Gloucestershire v Somerset". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
13. "Gloucestershire v Leicestershire". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
14. "Spinner Tom Smith signs long-term Gloucestershire deal". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 December 2013.

External links

• Player profile: Tom Smith from ESPNcricinfo
• Player profile: Tom Smith from CricketArchive