scoring 25 batting at number 8, and taking 3 for 44 in India's second innings, he was not retained. He was part, though, of another Yorkshire Championship winning campaign. During the first few post-war years, despite occasionally captaining the side when Norman Yardley could not play, Smailes gradually dropped out of the team. He was awarded a benefit in 1948, which raised £5,104. As his playing days drew to a close, Smailes took over a pub and played three seasons of league cricket with Walsall Cricket Club. Frank Smailes died in Harrogate, Yorkshire in December 1970, after a long and painful illness, at the age of 60. References 1910 births 1970 deaths England Test cricketers English cricketers Yorkshire cricketers Players cricketers Cricketers from Harrogate People educated at Pocklington School Cricketers who have taken ten wickets in an innings English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers North v South cricketers British Army personnel of World War II Royal Artillery officers