Edward Smyrk

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Edward Smyrk

| image =

| caption =

| country = New Zealand

| fullname = Edward William Smyrk

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|5|1|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Reefton, Inangahua County, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age |1962|8|14|1882|5|1|df=yes}}

| death_place = Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm off-spin, leg-spin

| family =

| club1 = Hawke's Bay

| year1 = 1909-10 to 1912-13

| club2 = Wellington

| year2 = 1913-14 to 1919-20

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 7

| runs1 = 117

| bat avg1 = 10.63

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 30

| deliveries1 = 580

| wickets1 = 13

| bowl avg1 = 29.76

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 4/45

| catches/stumpings1 = 5/0

| date = 23 October 2020

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38523.html Cricinfo

}}

Edward William Smyrk (1 May 1882 – 14 August 1962) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Hawke's Bay and Wellington from 1910 to 1920.

Smyrk was a spin bowler, useful lower-order batsman and fine fieldsman.{{cite journal |title=Cricket |journal=New Zealand Herald |date=3 March 1911 |page=8 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19110303.2.108.1}}{{cite journal |title=The Wellington Team |journal=Star |date=24 December 1919 |page=9 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19191224.2.68}} His best first-class bowling figures were 4 for 45 in his last match, for Wellington against Hawke's Bay in 1920.{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9745.html| title = Wellington v Hawke's Bay 1919-20| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =23 October 2020}}

Smyrk served as a sapper with the Samoa Expeditionary Force in the Occupation of German Samoa in 1914.{{cite web|url = https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C55716| title = Edward William Smyrk| publisher = Auckland Museum| accessdate =23 October 2020}} He returned to New Zealand in March 1915 and married Jessie Arnold in Napier on 7 April.{{cite journal|title=Social and Personal|journal=New Zealand Times|date=9 April 1915|page= 9| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19150409.2.77}}