Famous Cricketers No 80 - E.G.Wynyard

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Keith Warsop was born in Nottingham in 1935 and started supporting Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge during the immediate postwar years in the heyday of Joe Hardstaff and Reg Simpson. He also watched Notts County F.C. at the time of the signing of England centre-forward Tommy Lawton and his interest in both cricket and football history and statistics began at this period. As a journalist, he worked on provincial evening and morning papers in Derby, Nottingham, Birmingham and Leeds before taking early retirement and moving back to the Gedling suburb of Nottingham. Keith had material published in The Cricket Quarterly including “Bowling Evolution: Hambledon to Roundarm” and several reviews of Wisden at the request of Rowland Bowen. He had earlier done research for Bowen for the latter’s “At the Sign of the Wicket” column in The Cricketer . In 1984 his history of Notts County F.C., The Magpies , appeared and a more recent football book is The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs: A Who’s Who plus Match Facts . As a left-handed cricketer he played for Nottingham press teams and the Y.M.C.A. without a great deal of success except one “five for” with his left-arm slows. At football he was even less successful.