Lives in Cricket No 23 - Brief Candles

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Keith Walmsley is a retired chartered town planner, resident for nearly 40 years in Reading, whose interest in the more esoteric facts and figures of cricket began long before the sad discovery that, as a player, he would never be worth a place in any XI. Despite this, he played for almost twenty years in the Reading Midweek League, mainly because he owned his team’s only pair of wicketkeeping gloves. He has been a member of the ACS since the mid-1970s, and Statistical Officer of The Cricket Society, in succession to the late Derek Lodge, since 1996. His previous publications have included three editions of Mosts Without in Test Cricket and the ACS Famous Cricketers volume on long-time hero Clem Hill. He is the only QPR supporter currently playing the cello in the Reading Symphony Orchestra. The players pictured on the front cover are top row (l to r): Emile McMaster, Robert Gregory and Fred Hyland; bottom row: Harold Hinde, Jack Lee and Stuart Moffat.