Lives in Cricket No 18 - FR Foster

an unlikely victory. More runs and wickets than any other player for either side. The last seven Surrey wickets fell on the third morning for 49. As Wisden later said ‘Surrey ought at least to have made a close fight.’ Wisden and Surrey reckoned without Frank Foster. The whole thing was surreal; in all the circumstances no plot devised by man could have had a more appropriate, more romantic, more tear-jerking finale. Perhaps it should end here; from now it was all downhill, into depths of unbelievable trauma, a fall to which no human being should be subjected. Vicissitudes down to war 90