About M. J. K. Smith
Michael John Knight Smith (30 June 1933 – 17 May 2026), known as M. J. K. Smith or Mike Smith, was an English cricketer and rugby union player. He played for Leicestershire from 1951 until 1955, and for Warwickshire between 1956 and 1975. Smith played in fifty Tests for England between 1958 and 1972 and was captain of England twenty-five times. He also represented England at rugby union in one match against Wales in 1956. He remains England's most recent male double international in cricket and rugby. == Biography == Michael John Knight Smith was born on 30 June 1933 in Leicester, and raised nearby in Broughton Astley. He was educated at Stamford School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read geography. A bespectacled right-handed batsman, he came to prominence playing for Oxford University, scoring centuries in three consecutive Varsity matches against Cambridge, from 1954 to 1956. Smith was president of Vincent's Club in 1956. Appointed captain of Warwickshire in 1957, he was one of the heaviest scorers in first-class cricket for the next 10 years, with 3,249 runs in 1959 as his highest aggregate.
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