Kenneth Smales, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKenneth Smales
English county cricketer
Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1927
Date of Death: 10-Mar-2015
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Kenneth Smales
- Kenneth Smales (15 September 1927 – 10 March 2015) was an English former first-class cricketer, who played thirteen games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1948 to 1950, and 148 matches for Nottinghamshire from 1951 to 1958.
- He was born in Horsforth, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. A right arm, off break bowler, he took 389 wickets at 30.70, with a best of all ten for 66 against Gloucestershire at Stroud.
- He took five wickets in an innings twenty times and 10 wickets in a match on five occasions.
- He scored 2,512 runs at 14.43, with a best of 64 against Glamorgan, one of four fifties he compiled.
- He took 60 catches in the field.
- He had one hat-trick to his name against Lancashire at Trent Bridge. Smales joined Nottingham Forest F.C.
- in 1958 as assistant secretary, then became full-time secretary in January 1961.
- He went on to give over thirty five years of service to the club, and was secretary during Brian Clough's reign, where the club won countless trophies both home and abroad.
- He has put his signature to many famous transfers, notably that of the first million pound footballer, Trevor Francis. Privately, he was an accomplished golfer achieving a handicap of four at Wollaton Park Golf Club, as well as playing local amateur cricket for Bulwell C.C.
- well into his forties.
- He wrote a book on the history of Nottingham Forest F.C., with in-depth facts about the club's history, and he ran a website.He had a son (Michael), and two grandchildren (Anna and Joseph).
- On 10 March 2015, he died at the age of 87.
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