London, May 18 -- MJK Smith, the former Warwickshire and England captain, has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.

As a player, Smith scored more than 30,000 runs for the Bears and is remembered as a shot-making, positive player in the days of largely reserved championship cricket, as per the Warwickshire website.

Smith scored 39,832 runs in a 25-year career and was also capped 50 times by England, half of which came as captain between 1963 and 1966.

He hit 69 centuries (with a best of 204) and 241 fifties. He was often out when batting for the team rather than himself and generally scored runs at a good pace. He made 2,000 runs in a season six times running from 1957 to '62.

Having retired from the First Class game in 1975...