Lives in Cricket No 20 - Maurice Tompkin

Contents Preface 5 Chapter One Family history and background 7 Chapter Two Learning the game 13 Chapter Three Leicestershire debut, 1938 and 1939 20 Chapter Four Football winters 34 Chapter Five War and Peace, 1940 to 1949 44 Chapter Six Years of Plenty, 1950 to 1953 67 Chapter Seven Senior Professional 92 Chapter Eight In Pakistan, 1955/56 109 Chapter Nine Final days 115 Postscript 123 Acknowledgements 124 Bibliography 125 Appendix One Career Statistics 127 Appendix Two Cricket at Countesthorpe 129 Index 131 3