article_snippet.sent: It's fair to say his would be England's most academically gifted cricketer since Ed Smith – another Cambridge double first – won three Test caps in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: The left-handed batsman and left-arm spinner also has an eye on a career in academia one day . '
article_snippet.sent: Ansari doesn't rule out a PhD or a career in academia.
article_snippet.sent: If so, Ansari would follow the path of Ansari father, Khizar, who hails from Lahore in Pakistan, settled in England in Ansari teens because Ansari own father was an engineer in the British Army, and was awarded an OBE 13 years ago for Ansari work on race relations.
highlights_snippet.sent: But Zafar Ansari is also a gifted academic, with a double first from Cambridge .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Zafar Ansari could be England's most academically gifted player since Ed Smith .