Lives in Cricket No 14 - Jack Bond

Acknowledgements and Bibliography A book of this kind, in which a living cricketer has shared his memories, must always owe most to its subject. To have worked with Jack Bond has been a very special privilege. My thanks are due to all who have given me time, whether face-to-face, on the telephone or by letter or e-mail to share recollections of Jack. I should especially mention Bob Barber, Jim Cumbes, Farokh Engineer, C.I.M.Jones, Peter Lever, Clive Lloyd, Frank Parr, Jack Simmons, Roy Tattersall, Brigadier Harry Thompson and Bob White. I am also grateful to Trevor Pledger for unearthing full details of Jack’s playing record at Bolton School. I have made regular use of the following reference books: Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Playfair Cricket Annual Benny Green (ed), 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 E.W.Swanton and George Plumptre (eds), Barclays World of Cricket , Collins, 1986 I have consulted and sometimes quoted from: Vernon Addison and Brian Bearshaw , Lancashire Cricket at the Top, Stanley Paul, 1971 Brian Bearshaw, From the Stretford End , Partridge Press, 1990 Stephen Chalke, At the Heart of English Cricket , Fairfield Books, 2001 Simon Lister, Supercat , Fairfield Books, 2007 John Marshall, Old Trafford , Pelham Books, 1971 Gordon Ross, The Gillette Cup 1963 to 1980 , Queen Anne Press, 1981 I have consulted and quoted from sundry newspapers, principally The Times, The Guardian, The Manchester Evening News and The Evening Chronicle , but also others, not always identifiable in a limited scrapbook maintained for the early years of Jack Bond’s career by his wife, Florence. I am grateful to the Reverend Malcolm Lorimer and Jim Cumbes, Chief Executive of Lancashire CCC for arranging for me to have 136