Gubby Under Pressure

In addition reference has been made to various editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, to The Times , to Jim Ledbetter’s First-Class Cricket: A Complete Record 1937 , published in 1993, to David Thurlow’s Ken Farnes: Diary of an Essex Master , published 2000, to Allen Synge’s book on selectors, Sins of Omission , published in 1990; and to material on the websites www.cricinfo.com and www.cricketarchive.com . Finally, and by no means least, I am enormously indebted to Douglas Miller and David Jeater of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians for their encouragement and assistance in completing this book. Roger Mann and Bernard Whimpress provided photographs, the cover design was by Zahra Ridge and proof-reading by Ric Finlay. Brian Rendell September, 2007 106