Cricket Witness No 6 - His Captain's Hand on His Shoulder Smote

84 where the cricket professional is more Long John Silver than Wilfred Rhodes. Apart from one’s admiration of the voracious reading by Burrell of these stories, it is clear his article expressly underlines the role of cricket as a staple of schoolboy reading in this period. BOP, Magnet and Gem appeared immutable but time did eventually resolve to move on ever so slightly. They were joined and gradually dominated by a new-look pattern of ‘story book’, more up-to-date and broader in range, but still with the school story playing a part and, pleasingly, with cricket, not just at school but at county and Test level, still a major ingredient. Sources Burrell JF ‘Cricket at Greyfriars’ in The Journal of the Cricket Society vol. 1, no. 2 Spring (1983) Lofts WOG & Adley DJ The World of Frank Richards (1975) Richards op cit especially chapter twelve ‘Paradise Regained’ The Flood (1) Greyfriars For Ever..And Ever