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62 Pakistan’s first Test captain, A.H.Kardar. Edward Hewetson played no first-class cricket in 1920 or 1921, when he was still at Shrewsbury School, but returned to the first-class game for Oxford University and for Warwickshire in 1922. He made 66 first-class appearances in all, the last of them in 1934. His finest hour as a bowler came when he took 9-33 in an innings for The Rest against the Lord’s Schools during the annual Public Schools’ Festival at Lord’s in 1920. In the 1923 University Match he scored 57 in 25 minutes, batting at number 9. Albert Howell played the last of his 34 matches for Warwickshire in 1922, before embarking on a successful career in the Minor Counties with Durham. One of his finest achievements was to take 23 wickets for 141 runs for them in two successive matches in 1930 (v Yorkshire II and v Staffordshire). He dismissed Jack Hobbs for 2 in 1927 when playing for Durham v H.D.G.Leveson Gower’s XI at Sunderland. He died in 1958, on his 60th birthday. Verner Luckin was born on 14 February - hence his second forename of Valentine. He made an unbeaten century in a Warwickshire CCC trial match immediately after the game against Worcestershire in 1919, but despite this the game at Edgbaston was the last of his 19 first-class matches. He died at the age of 41 in 1931, the first and youngest of the players in the match to die. For Reggie Santall the game at Edgbaston was the start of a long and honourable first-class career in which he scored nearly 18,000 runs and took close to 300 wickets. He was the only player from the Edgbastonmatch to make a first-class double-century (201* v Northants at Northampton in 1933), and against the same opponents two years later he scored 173* before lunch on the third day. The 3-33 that he took on debut at Edgbaston remained his best first-class bowling figures until his 120th match, when he took 4-37 against Leicestershire in 1925. He was one of only four players to play first-class cricket in England in every season between the Wars (the others were Ewart Astill, Herbert Sutcliffe and Jack Mercer), and was the only one of those four whose entire first-class career was contained within those interwar years. His brother Jack (J.F.E.) - a professional ice-skater - played eight matches for Worcestershire in 1930, but the two brothers never opposed each other in a first-class match, unlike ... ... Jack Smart and his brother Cyril (Warwickshire 1920-22, Glamorgan 1927-46), who opposed each other in two matches in 1935. Jack Smart started his career as a batsman and occasional off-spinner, but for much of the 1930s he was Warwickshire’s first-choice wicket-keeper. After retiring in 1936 he became a first-class umpire, and stood in four Tests in 1946 and 1947. Ernest Suckling was engaged on the Edgbaston staff as a bowler in 1919 and played two wicketless matches for them in that season, but the game against Worcestershire was his last for Warwickshire. He took his only first-class wickets when playing for Worcestershire, all of them in the same innings – 4-71 against Lancashire at New Road in 1923, in one of his three matches for the county in 1923 and 1924. Warwickshire in 1919