Overview
- Warwickshire announced his death Monday, and play at Edgbaston began with a silence before their County Championship match against Glamorgan.
- Smith played 50 Tests for England and captained the side in 25 of them across a 14-year international career.
- He amassed 39,832 first-class runs for Leicestershire, Oxford University and Warwickshire, setting a club single-season record of 2,417 in 1959.
- At Test level he scored 2,278 runs with three centuries and 11 fifties, and he later served as an ICC match referee after retiring.
- He chaired Warwickshire from 1991 to 2003 in a trophy-rich spell that included back-to-back County Championships in 1994 and 1995, and he is survived by children Neil, Carole and Barbara.