Lives in Cricket No 1 - Allan Watkins

Contents Foreword 5 Introduction 6 Chapter One: Early days at Usk 7 Chapter Two: An easy War for Stoker Watkins 19 Chapter Three: A foothold in County cricket 26 Chapter Four: Called up for England 35 Chapter Five: South African adventure 45 Chapter Six: Back on the County circuit 54 Chapter Seven: Senior professional in India 60 Chapter Eight: The best all-rounder in English cricket 71 Chapter Nine: Problems in Pakistan 80 Chapter Ten: The strain becomes too much 86 Chapter Eleven: ‘Go back to what you love’ 96 Postscript 107 Acknowledgements and Bibliography 109 Appendix: Some statistics 111