Lives in Cricket No 30 - MJK Smith

159 Career Statistics First-Class Cricket: Batting and Fielding Season M I NO R HS Ave 100 50 Ct 1951 England 3 4 0 5 4 1.25 - - 1 1954 England 24 43 4 1540 201* 39.48 2 10 18 1955 England 31 58 2 1740 118 31.07 3 10 19 1956 England 17 32 2 1163 126 38.76 3 7 22 1957 England 35 63 5 2125 127 36.63 3 17 18 1958 England 31 51 3 2126 160 44.29 3 15 26 1959 England 36 67 11 3245 200* 57.94 8 16 49 1959/60 West Indies 13 19 2 649 111 38.17 2 3 5 1960 England 34 63 7 2551 169* 45.55 4 19 30 1960/61 South Africa 4 7 1 339 204 56.50 1 1 2 1961 England 35 67 5 2587 145 41.72 5 16 56 1961/62 India 11 20 6 579 89 41.35 - 5 7 1961/62 Pakistan 6 9 0 210 99 23.33 - 2 5 1962 England 37 64 12 2290 163 44.03 1 1 48 1963 England 26 39 6 1566 144* 47.45 3 9 22 1963/64 India 9 13 4 467 75* 51.88 - 3 6 1963/64 East Africa 1 1 0 47 47 47.00 - - 1 1964 England 30 50 6 1691 132 38.43 1 13 39 1964/65 South Africa 14 17 2 877 153 58.46 3 2 21 1965 England 28 44 5 1224 93 31.38 - 9 19 1965/66 Australia 13 22 5 792 112* 46.58 2 4 19 1965/66 New Zealand 4 6 0 287 87 47.83 - 3 9 1966 England 28 50 9 1824 140 44.48 4 10 32 1967 England 28 46 6 1656 173* 41.40 3 11 19 1968 England 1 2 1 112 67* 112.00 - 1 - 1969 England 2 4 0 188 148 47.00 1 - 1 1970 England 26 48 7 1644 153* 40.09 2 11 22 1971 England 28 48 9 1951 127 50.02 6 9 23 1972 England 22 34 6 1247 119 44.53 2 8 8 1973 England 24 38 4 1248 161 36.70 1 6 19 1974 England 23 38 8 1159 105 38.63 1 8 23 1975 England 13 24 1 703 122 30.56 1 3 6 Totals 637 1091 139 39832 204 41.84 69 242 595 Notes: Mike’s 39,832 first-class runs make him the eighteenth most prolific batsman in cricket history. He was dismissed caught 539 times (56.6%), bowled 232 (23.2%), lbw 149 (15.7%), run out 26 (2.7%), stumped 13 (1.4%) and hit wicket four times (0.4%). He was dismissed most often by J.B.Statham 17 times, F.S.Trueman 14, J.A.Flavell and D. Shackleton 13, J.S.Savage 11, F.J. Titmus, P.J.Sainsbury and R.Illingworth, all ten times. For Warwickshire he scored 27, 672 runs at 43.10, the third-highest career total for the county, and made 422 catches, the most by any player for the county. He took most catches off the bowling of T.W.Cartwright, 62 and J.D.Bannister, 58. His 53 catches for Warwickshire in 1961 remain a county record. Until beaten by Rikki Clarke in 2011, his six catches in an innings, against Leicestershire in 1962, had been a county record.