Lives in Cricket No 1 - Allan Watkins

Acknowledgements and Bibliography To Allan, for giving me and my tape recorder so many hours, for lending me his precious scrap book and for digging out old photographs, I shall be eternally grateful. Many others have been helpful in talking to me. I have visited Allan’s brother Selwyn and his wife Eileen, Peter Walker and Donald Carr. I have spoken on the telephone with Allan’s children and with others who knew him on the cricket field or at Oundle School: Tom Graveney, Leo Harrison, Michael Mills, Peter Mills, Don Shepherd, Dr Barry Trapnell and Ossie Wheatley. My thanks are extended to all. I have made regular use of the following reference books: Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Playfair Cricket Annual The Wisden Book of Obituaries (Macdonald Queen Anne Press, 1986) Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynne-Thomas, Who’s Who of Cricketers (Second Edition) (Hamlyn Books, 1993) Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Who’s Who of Test Cricketers (Macdonald Queen Anne Press, 1987) E.W.Swanton and George Plumptre (eds), Barclays World of Cricket (Collins, 1986) I have consulted and sometimes quoted from: David Rayvern Allen, Arlott (Harper Collins, 1994) John Arlott, Gone to the Cricket (Longmans Green, 1948) Stephen Chalke, At the Heart of English Cricket (Fairfield Books, 2001) Jack Fingleton Brightly Fades the Don (Collins, 1949) Andrew Hignell, Turnbull (Tempus, 2001) Douglas Miller, Born to Bowl (Fairfield Books, 2004) J.H.Morgan, Glamorgan County Cricket Club (Convoy Publications, 1952) Gordon Ross, The Testing Years (Stanley Paul, 1958) Peter Walker, It’s not just Cricket (Fairfield Books, 2006) Wilfred Wooller, A History of County Cricket: Glamorgan (Arthur Barker, 1971) 109