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Smailes remarkably effective at Sheffield, but he did little as a bowler away from Yorkshire with Bowes, Verity and Ellis Robinson all beating him in the averages.
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were Verity was buried and, along with another
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in 1946. Despite not faring badly in 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
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and Italy. It was there that he learned of the death of his friend, Hedley Verity. He went to the cemetery in
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