Occupation: Cricket Player Birth: May 27, 1887 Death: October 18, 1978
It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree..
Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players..
I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent..
In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now..
I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game..
Lots of times I was out through forcing the game..
Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiec….
It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss..
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cri….
Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket..