Lives in Cricket No 22 - Jack Mercer

Contents Foreword 5 Introduction 7 Chapter One To Russia, with love 13 Chapter Two Debut for Sussex 21 Chapter Three A move to South Wales 27 Chapter Four Early years with Glamorgan 32 Chapter Five An approach from the north 36 Chapter Six Turning the corner 41 Chapter Seven A passage to India 49 Chapter Eight Rain and rumours 56 Chapter Nine Swansea-by-the-sea 60 Chapter Ten A tour to Jamaica 65 Chapter Eleven A change of captain 70 Chapter Twelve Life under Turnbull 77 Chapter Thirteen I wish we had more like him 82 Chapter Fourteen Senior professional 88 Chapter Fifteen The swinging thirties 93 Chapter Sixteen Ten wickets and a benefit 100 Chapter Seventeen Renaissance man 107 Chapter Eighteen The last hurrah 113 Chapter Nineteen For King and Country, again 117 Chapter Twenty Coaching in the east and west 121 Chapter Twenty-One A scorer’s lot 129 Acknowledgements 136 Select Bibliography 137 Appendix Career statistics 138 Index 142 3