Ian Smith (South African cricketer)
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Vivian Ian Smith is a former South Africa
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er who played in nine Tests
from 1947 to 1957. All nine of his Test appearances were outside South Africa, five in England on two tours, in 1947 and 1955, and four in Australia, where again he toured twice, in 1949-50 and 1957-58.
Smith was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg-break bowler.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in nine Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
from 1947 to 1957. All nine of his Test appearances were outside South Africa, five in England on two tours, in 1947 and 1955, and four in Australia, where again he toured twice, in 1949-50 and 1957-58.
Smith was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg-break bowler.