Lives in Cricket No 21 - Walter Read

Contents Foreword by Neil Read 5 Preface 6 Chapter One Family Background 7 Chapter Two Reigate Priory 16 Chapter Three Surrey 1873/80 36 Chapter Four Assistant Secretary... You’re ’aving a larf 39 Chapter Five Surrey and England 1881/87 43 Chapter Six Australia 1882/83 and 1887/88 58 Chapter Seven Surrey and England 1888/97 72 Chapter Eight South Africa 1891/92 93 Chapter Nine Negotiations … no broken Read, he. 102 Chapter Ten Annals of Cricket and Short Hints on Cricket 108 Chapter Eleven Last Years 116 Acknowledgements 124 Appendices: A Chronology 126 B Seven Generations of Reads 127 C Statistics 128 Bibliography 131 Index 133 3