Lives in Cricket No 21 - Walter Read

101 J D Logan not out 750 Extras 107 ____ Innings declared closed 857 The significance of the tour in Read’s own mind is perhaps encapsulated by the single line in Annals of Cricket at the end of his entry for 1891: ‘In the winter of this year I captained a team out to South Africa’. 176 Furthermore, there is no mention of Read’s absence or his achievements in the Surrey minutes, suggesting that even though the massacre in Cape Town was subsequently deemed a Test match, the tour ranked below county cricket and international cricket against Australia in the eyes of both the England captain and his county club. 176 Annals of Cricket p 184 South Africa 1891/92 Lord Alverstone, earlier Sir Richard Webster, with whom Read conducted his contractual negotiations. [Surrey County Cricket Club]