All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

123 Alex Kennedy continued love of bowling meant that his young charges were never short of quality net practice. On his return, when not attending to his tobacconist and stationer’s business in Southampton, he spent many hours at the county ground watching, and talking about, cricket. Alex Kennedy was clearly a much admired colleague and friend. John Arlott knew him as a sober and steady man, and team-mate Harold Day, on hearing of his death in 1959, expressed the opinion that there was never a greater-hearted trier nor a fairer bowler.