Lives in Cricket No 20 - Maurice Tompkin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Richard Holdridge has been a life-long cricket supporter, and was taught how to score by his grandmother at the Scarborough cricket festival in 1961. (It was her uncle who broke Spofforth’s finger at Scarborough and, in family legend, thereby secured England’s victory in the first Test match played in England.) A member of Leicestershire CCC since 1968, and currently their honorary archivist, he has been a member of ACS since 1975. He has helped with a variety of publications including the Minor Counties and cricket grounds series. A village cricketer for Laughton and Mowsley (where cars had to stop to allow bowling from one end) and a qualified coach, he now assists with junior cricket at Countesthorpe, with which club Maurice Tompkin and his family were associated. One-time schoolmaster, chartered accountant and now house husband, he lives in that village with his wife and two young children.