The making of Jamie Smith

By Richard Edwards

JAMIE SMITH didn’t so much make an impact in his debut Test series as smash it out of the park. Quite literally.
And while the prodigious distances the Surrey batter can hit the ball may have surprised some, two coaches who know him as well as anyone didn’t bat an eyelid.
Although they perhaps didn’t envisage a skinny kid from Epsom depositing balls over the Warner Stand in a Test match by the time he was 24.
“He’s filling out, he’s a little bit more developed in a muscular sense – he was always quite rangy, always...

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