Lives in Cricket No 15 - Michael Falcon

147 living in Cathedral Close, Norwich 112 physical fitness 27, 28, 77, 105, 118 playing for Cambridge University 4, 17, 18 , 19-22, 26, 27 playing for Free Foresters 36-38, 54, 57, 60, 61-62, 68, 74-75, 78, 122 playing for the Gentlemen 32 , 35, 35 , 70 playing for Harrow 12, 13, 14 playing for Norfolk, 1906-1908 8, 14, 17, 18, 19; 1910-1914 22, 23 , 25-27, 29 , 31, 36 ‘all-round excellence’ in 1920 59; 1921-1929 8, 61, 65, 67, 70, 76 , 77-82, 81; 1930-1938 57, 58, 82, 85 , 86, 87, 89 ‘Indian Summer’ with the bat; 1939 91, 92, 92 ‘swan song’ in 1946 105-107 partnership record for Gentlemen 71 partnership record for Norfolk 89 portrait by Oswald Birley 108 recovery from cancer 112 recruiting Jack Nichols as Norfolk’s coach 61 school days at Cromer 11 , 12 school days at Harrow 12 singing at Horning meeting 67 social cricket in later life 5, 105, 106, 109-111, 110 , 111 spectator at Lakenham in later life 6, 114 studying law at Cambridge University 17, 20, 21, 25 Test cricket ‘possible’ 64, 65, 115-122 tour of U.S.A. with Incogniti 32 , 33, 34, 123, 126 tributes from Eastern Daily Press and Sir Hubert Ashton 129, 130 unbeaten record against first-class touring sides 117, 118 Falcon, Michael, senior (father) 10, 41, 54, 92, 95, 96, 108 Falcon, Michael (grandfather) 10 Falcon, Michael (grandson) 97 Falcon, Michael Gascoigne (son) 12, 25, 34, 44, 56, 94, 96-98, 101,109, 114, 115, 127 Falcon, William (brother) 10, 15, 16, 41, 42 Falcon’s XI 15, 90, 110, 111, 111 Falcon and Birkbeck (land agents) 10 Falcon Brewery, Great Yarmouth 92, 93 Falcon Cup competition 69 Falcon family name 10 Falcon House, Norwich 129, 129 Falconer, Roderick 29 , 30, 35 Farnes, Kenneth 57 Faulkner, G.A. 62-65, 64 R.T.Fellowes’ XI 33 Fenner’s Ground, Cambridge 17, 37, 78 Festival of Britain, 1951 110, 110 Field, E.F. 27 Findlay, William 40, 100 Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge 17, 20 The Fleggs, Norfolk 49 Fleming, M.V. 10 Folland, N.A. 124, 125 Foster, R.E. 38 Foster, F.R. 27, 32 , 119, 120 Foster, G.N. 62, 64 Foster, H.K. 120 Fox, E.C.M. 12 Fox, James 12 France 42 Franklin, W.B. 74, 75, 80, 82-83, 89, 105, 116, 119 Free Foresters C.C. 8-9, 36-38, 54, 57, 60-62, 68, 74, 75, 78, 122 French, Lt-Col Hon E.G.F. 14 Frith, D.E.J. 40 Fry, C.B. 121, 122 Fulcher, E.J. 23 , 29 , 35 Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey 14, 42 Gascoigne, Capt. Charles (father-in-law) 54 Gascoigne, Kathleen (wife) 50, 54, 69, 78-79, 95 , 97, 98, 106, 112-114, 128 Gentlemen v Players matches 8, 22, 26, 27, 32 , 33, 35, 35 , 58-60, 68, 70, 71, 75, 78, 80, 117, 120, 123 Gentlemen of England XI 58 Gentlemen’s XI 21 Germany 36, 46, 96, 104, 128 Gibson, C.H. 62-64, 64 , 119 Gibson, Ted 18 , 23 , 29 , 125 Gidea Park C.C., Romford 57 Gilligan, A.E.R. 71, 122 Glamorgan C.C.C. 35, 122 Golden Age of Norfolk Cricket, 1910-1914 24, 25 Golden Age of Norfolk Cricket, 1930s 82 Government, 1918-1922 45-47, 89 Government, 1922-1923 51-52 Grace, Dr W.G. 75 Gravesend, Kent 90 Great Norwich Flood, 1878 29 Index