Lives in Cricket No 14 - Jack Bond

captain of David Hughes, who had been working with the second team in 1986, was a decision which Jack would have endorsed. Hughes at last led the county to happier times as new players first identified in Jack’s time – Fairbrother, Atherton, Watkinson and Hegg – came to fruition, soon to be joined by Wasim Akram as an inspired overseas signing. 128 ‘I don’t mean me – I mean thee!’ Lt-Gen Sir James Wilson, football correspondent of the Sunday Times, hosting a group of northern sporting personalities and their wives at an Army headquarters in Preston. Also in the picture: Joe Mercer, Tom Finney, Sir Matt Busby and Bobby Charlton.