Lives in Cricket No 18 - FR Foster

Contents Remembrances 5 Foreword 6 Introduction 8 Chapter One Warwick, thou art worthy 11 Chapter Two The first ‘Foster Brother’ 18 Chapter Three Early Years 21 Chapter Four Young cricketer making his way 24 Chapter Five Tell Kent from me she hath lost 31 Chapter Six Under the Southern Cross 53 Chapter Seven Vicissitudes down to war 67 Chapter Eight War and the 1920s 91 Chapter Nine The shambolic 1930s 99 Chapter Ten The cloudy days of autumn and of winter 108 Chapter Eleven And winter fought her battle strife and won 114 Acknowledgements 117 Select Bibliography 119 Appendix One Career Statistics 121 Appendix Two The Foster Family 124 Index 125 3