Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the following people for their assistance in compiling this record of a great cricketer’s achievements. Bill Brown, that fine Australian opening batsman, and the late John Kay, the distinguished journalist, for providing me with their memories; the late Derek Lodge for giving me the initial encouragement to undertake the project; ACS officials Malcolm Lorimer, Steven Sheen, Kit Bartlett and Peter Wynne-Thomas for providing me with much valuable information; Keith Hayhurst for allowing me generous use of his fine cricket library; Douglas Verity and the late Ellis Robinson, Hedley’s “spin twin” in the late 1930s, for giving me so much of their valuable time in supplying me with great insights into his skill and personality. Most of all, however, I must thank my wife, Jen, for her amazing patience in using her word processor skills to type and print out the seemingly hundreds of pages necessary. 3