Lives in Cricket No 20 - Maurice Tompkin

136 England twelfth man 75 fastest first-class century 65 fielding 14, 24, 27, 29, 32, 58, 73, 75-76, 79, 100 , 102-103 final illness 117-118 first club-cricket centuries 17 first century for Leicestershire side 18 first championship century 54 first first-class century 50 football for Bangalore Muslims FC 37 Bury FC 37-38 Huddersfield Town FC 39 Kettering Town FC 39-43 Leicester City FC 30, 34-37, 35 , 36 MCC side 43 golf 77 highest first-class score 94 injuries 60, 73, 79, 115 joins Leicestershire club’s nursery 20 last first-class match 116-117 MCC A tour to Pakistan 107, 109-114 MCC matches in England 71, 94 memorial appeal 120-122, 123 military service 30, 37, 44-46 personal view of cricket 80-81 Players v Gentlemen matches 5, 76, 79, 90-91, 104-105 possible Test cricketer 72 primary-school education 10-12 re-engagement for 1957 116 pay 20, 29, 47, 67, 101 scores football hat-trick 41 secondary-school education 12-15 senior cricket professional 102-103 takes only first-class wicket 90 war-time cricket 45-46 wedding 44, 44 Tompkin, Nick (son) 42, 73-74, 79, 68, 79, 87, 91, 110 , 123 Tompkin, Percy (father) 8, 9, 16, 30, 37, 44, 58, 119 Tompkin, Sheila (née Randle) 44, 44 , 50, 77, 87, 91, 93, 96, 110 , 118, 120, 123 Tompkin, William (uncle) 8 Torquay Cricket Festival 108, 116, 117 Tremlett, M.F. 58 Trent College, Long Eaton 123 Tribe, G.J. 85, 103 Trueman, F.S. 86-87 Tunbridge Wells, Kent 26 Turner, F.M. 98 Tyson, F.H. 85 Udal, G.F.U. 48 van Ryneveld, C.B. 64 Verity, Hedley 28 Victoria Park, Leicester 31, 58, 63 Voce, William 17, 27 Walker, A.K. 116 Walsh, J.E. 21, 47, 49, 50, 52, 52 , 54-57, 59, 61, 62, 62 , 64-69, 76, 78, 79, 81, 82, 84-86, 92, 94, 98, 101-102, 105, 106 , 115 Warburton, Arnold 93 Wardle, J.H. 56, 72, 86-87, 91, 95-96 Warner, Sir P.F. 57, 104 Warr, J.J. 105 Washbrook, Cyril 5, 71, 99 Watkins, A.J. 100 , 105, 107, 113 Watson, Albert 56 Watson, G.S. 20, 22, 29, 33 , 46, 49, 52 , 54-57, 62 , 67, 67 Watson, Willie 56, 72-73 76, 86, 87, 91 104 Webb, Lt Cdr A.G.G. 17, 29 Webb, R.T. 83 Wellingborough FC 42 Wellington FC 41 Wells, B.D. 81 West, A.R. 46 Whitcombe, P.A. 54 White, Crawford 114 Whittaker, G.J. 65 Wigston Magna, Leicestershire 97 Willatt, G.L. 65 Wilson, J V. 76, 95, 102 Windsor, Duke and Duchess of 18 Wisden Cricketers’Almanack 29, 33, 52, 72, 75, 77, 105, 123 Wisden Cricketer magazine 5 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 40, 41, 43 Womack, Francis 35-36 Wood, C.J.B. 18, 47-48 Wooler, C.R.D. 69 Wooller, Wilfred 73 Woolley, F.E 26 Worrell, Sir F.M.M. 108 Worthington, T.S. 49 Wright, D.V.P. 26, 55, 87 Wright, W.B. 39-42 Wyggeston GS, Leicester 13 York, Duke of (later King George VI) 7 Young, J.A. 64, 73, 107 Index