Wave of mourning in the cricket world, legendary captain Smith is no more, had scored the first century of his career against India only.

Mike Smith Death News: Former England cricket team Test captain Mike Smith passed away at the age of 92. This news was confirmed by Warwickshire County Cricket Club on Monday. Apart from cricket, Mike Smith also represented the country as a rugby union international player in 1956. He played 50 Test matches for England and captained 25 matches between 1958 and 1972. In his Test career, Smith scored 2,278 runs, which included 3 centuries and 11 half-centuries. In view of his important contribution to cricket, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the year 1976.

Warwickshire confirmed the news of Mike Smith’s death. Players and officials paid tribute to him by observing a minute’s silence before the start of play on the fourth day of their County Championship match against Glamorgan. The club posted on its social media account, “Warwickshire County Cricket Club has been announced as the ‘Bears’ Deeply saddened to hear the news of the demise of legendary player MJK Smith at the age of 92.”

Smith commanded Warwickshire between 1957 and 1967; He scored 39,832 first-class runs in 637 matches during his county career. Before coming to Warwickshire, Smith also played for Leicestershire from 1951 to 1955 and was also a part of the Oxford University team for two years.

Scored the first century against India

Smith, who made his Test debut against New Zealand in 1958, was initially tried as an opener, but he performed brilliantly in the middle order. At Old Trafford in 1959 India Scored his first century against. In 1963-64, he got the chance to captain the India tour in the absence of Ted Dexter and Colin Cowdrey. In the 25 Test matches played as captain, he had to face defeat only three times, while five matches were won and 17 matches were drawn.

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After retirement, Smith worked as a referee for 5 years. After this, he returned to the club in 1991 as the chairman of Warwickshire. He remained on this post till 2003. In addition, he ICC match referee Also played the role of. His son Neil carried on the family legacy by captaining Warwickshire and representing England in ODI matches.

With IANS inputs