Sri Lanka, May 18 -- Former England Test captain Mike Smith has died at the age of 92, his former county side Warwickshire announced on Monday.

The bespectacled batter, known by his initials MJK, played 50 Tests for England, captaining on 25 occasions, and was also a rugby union international, earning one cap against Wales in 1956.

He made his Test debut against New Zealand in 1958 and played his final Test against Australia in 1972.

In total he scored nearly 40,000 first-class runs with 72 centuries, three of them in Test cricket.

Smith served as Warwickshire chairman between 1991 and 2003, a period during which the club won multiple trophies with his son Neil Smith an integral part of the team.

Warwickshire announced his death on M...