Lives in Cricket No 14 - Jack Bond

for him. From 1956 Geoff Pullar had become a regular, to be joined two years later by Peter Marner, whose progress had been hampered by a rugby injury, and by Bob Barber, whose time at Cambridge had ended. For Jack – as for Roy Collins, Brian Booth and others – there would be years of scrapping on the fringes for a place. ‘You’re a professional cricketer now’ 34