Lives in Cricket No 18 - FR Foster

know exactly what passed through the Hampshire captain’s mind when Charlie Fynn got those two wickets in his first over. This was it. ‘My God this man is a bowler. What am I going to do with my mainstays, Newman, Kennedy and so on?’ This is what happened. In match after match poor old Charlie Fynn was put in the long field for hour after hour and when thoroughly tired out he was asked to bowl. I ask you, is it fair to put a googly bowler, of all people, in the deep for hours and hours without giving him a bowl? It decidedly is not. If Charlie Fynn had not got fed up and refused to play he would have been the finest googly bowler in England [1933] if he had played for Middlesex. Fynn was much faster off the pitch than Robins, bowled a better length and his ‘wrong un’ was far more deceptable. [ sic ]. I don’t care a bit what anybody says. I have seen Robins (in 1933) and I saw Fynn in 1928, so there is no argument. 64 98 War and the 1920s 64 Fynn played as an amateur in seven first-class matches for Hampshire in 1930 and two in 1931, scoring in all 45 runs at 6.42 and taking eleven wickets, many of them top-class batsmen, at 40.54.