Lives in Cricket No 18 - FR Foster

The death did not pass completely unnoticed. Some mundane obituaries appeared in the press but the daughter of the late Warwicks secretary, R.V.Ryder, said what should have been said elsewhere – the ideal epitaph. When asked for her memories, Margaret Abbot wrote: Was there ever a hero worshipped more in his day by the very young? His name became a legend, without the bolstering up by television or radio. After all these years I recall childhood memories, still fresh and vivid at the spell he cast around him. We were enthralled when F.R.Foster went out to bat. Anything could happen. Where might he not send them? Yes, that went for six, right over Edgbaston Road and into Queen’s Drive. And then they carried him shoulder-high off the field, the autograph hunters around him. 116 And winter fought her battle strife and won Frank Foster was buried in the family plot in Brandwood End Cemetery, a couple of miles from his childhood home at Mel Valley.