Lawrence Kilner Smith is a former English cricket

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er who played first-class

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 and List A cricket for Worcestershire

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. He later played at minor counties level for Wiltshire

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, and made a single List A appearance for that county. He also went on Minor Counties' tour of South Africa in 1993-94.

Smith's professional career was not particularly successful: in his few first-team appearances for Worcestershire, his highest score was the 28 he made on debut against Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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while his solitary success with the ball was the wicket of Warwickshire

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 wicket-keeper

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 Geoff Humpage

Geoff Humpage

Geoffrey William Humpage is a former English cricketer who played in 3 ODIs in 1981.As of 2009, he still holds the Warwickshire batting record for the fourth wicket - a stand of 470 with Alvin Kallicharran against Lancashire at Southport in 1982, of which Humpage contributed 254...

 on Smith's final first-class appearance in July 1987.

Smith's only half-century in major cricket came for Wiltshire against Durham

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 in the first round of the 1993 NatWest Trophy; opening the batting, he top-scored with 73, but his innings was not enough to avoid a 103-run defeat.

His father David Smith

David Smith (Derbyshire cricketer)

David Henry Kilner Smith was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace and off-break bowler, and an occasional wicket-keeper. Smith was born in Shipley....

 played over 100 times, mainly for Derbyshire

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, between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s.