Lives in Cricket No 18 - FR Foster

127 Foster, Florence (sister) 11 Foster, Frank Rowbotham: allrounder’s double 16, 40, 41, 50 Army career 91 assessment as allrounder 8-10 autobiography (published) 65, 75, 77 autobiographical notes (unpublished) 11-15, 21, 24, 33, 46, 61, 94-95, 95-97, 97-98, 101-102, 103-104 awarding marks to players 34 banned from Edgbaston 109 bankruptcy hearing 106, 107 birth 18 Birmingham resident as adult 93, 106, 108 bodyline bowling, views on 101. 103, 104, 105, 117 Bournemouth C.C. 95, 97 ‘Brummie’ accent 21, 103 captain of MCC side 60-61, 112, captain of Warwickshire, first match as 30 captain of Warwickshire, appointed 31 captain of Warwickshire, reappointed 1911 32 cartoon by C.S.Baker 68 childhood at Mel Valley 20, 21 cinema advertisement 60 committee member at Edgbaston 92 contracted professional cricketer 28 death and burial 115 dress 64 early interest in cricket 21, 22 first first-class century 35 first first-class five-wicket return 25 first-class matches in 1908 16-24 first-class matches in 1909 25-28 first-class matches in 1910 28-30 first-class matches in 1911 11-15, 32-44 first-class matches in 1911/12 54-63 first-class matches in 1912 67-73 first-class matches in 1913 74-80 first-class matches in 1914 81-90 first Test match 56-57 Foster Brothers career 93, 95, 106, 107 Foster, M.K, incident 87-88 fraud and assault charges 110-113 gambling 16, 56, 93, 94, 95, 106-107, 108-109 Gentlemen v Players matches 19, 29, 38, 69, 70, 77, 79 , 86 gramophone recording 102 Hall Green C.C. 20, 23, 24, 26 H.J.Henley incident 103-104 hospital in-patient 113, 114 injury in road accident 16, 65, 91-92 ‘in love’ 27-28, 30, 32, 65 D.R.Jardine, meeting 100, 103 last Test match 72 leg-theory bowling 29, 39, 63, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 76, 100 Leigh-on-Sea resident 110, 111 , 112-113 A.F.A.Lilley incident 41 London resident 99, 100 , 103, 108, 109, 111 manager post at Edgbaston 92 marriage and children 92 MCC membership 67 memorial 116 mental health 73, 92, 105, 115 Northants v Warwicks, Northampton, 1911 11-15 obituary comment 115, 116 positive cricket 33, 34 Rego Clothing, dealings with 110-111 religious beliefs 13, 91 ‘retirements’ from county cricket 28, 32, 67, 73, 81, 85 ‘rickshaw’ incident 54-55 separation from family 19, 93, 106 Soho murder case, witness in 99, 100 Solihull School 22 speech at 1911 celebration 45 street name 115 Test trial matches 37, 67 Test matches in Australia, 1911/12 56-57, 57-58, 58-60, 61-62, 62-63 Triangular Test series, 1912 68-72 triple century 83, 84 views on Warwicks 1911 success 46-47 Warwicks 1st XI, first match for 24-25 Warwicks 1st XI, last match for 88-90 Warwicks 2nd XI, first match for 23 ‘Where’s Frank’ incident 75, 76 Wilkinson and Riddell career 12, 23, 24, 32, 73, 81, 104 Foster, G.N. 42, 87, 88 Foster, Rev H. 74 Foster, H.K. 42, 74 Foster, John Pritchard (son) 18, 92 Foster, M.K. 84, 87, 88 Foster, Nigel (great nephew) 109 Foster, N.J.A. 87, 88 Index