Lives in Cricket No 16 - Joe Hardstaff

1927 Annesley won the latter. In its issue of the 26 August, the Mansfield and Kirkby Chronicle carried a photograph of the victorious Annesley team. The 16-year-old Joe may be seen standing in the back row. Sadly it was not possible to find any details of Annesley’s route to victory. It had been a good summer: Joe appears not to have set the world on fire, but he had done enough for Harold Larwood to introduce him to Trent Bridge in early 1928 – rather to the annoyance of ‘Old Joe’ who was still far from happy about the way in which he felt the Notts committee had treated him four years earlier. 12 Early Days, 1911-1928 An impression by a local artist, J.Attwood, of the old Kirkby Woodhouse village school, now demolished. Five Test cricketers were educated in these buildings. The Mansfield and Kirkby Chronicle picture of the successful Annesley C.C. side of 1927, with the young J.Hardstaff third from the right in the back row.