Lives in Cricket No 23 - Brief Candles

30 But he was beyond question a first-class cricketer. Hyland was named in the twelve for Hampshire’s immediately following match at Trent Bridge, but Ronnie Aird was now once again available, and in a batsman-for-bowler swap Aird replaced him in the team; surely a little harsh, as both Thomas Smith and Norman Bowell were principally batsmen, and one of them would have been more of a like-for-like change. 47 Evidence suggests that Hyland travelled with the team to Trent Bridge, and indeed stayed with them for another week. On Wednesday, 18 June, he played at Northlands Road for the Hampshire Hogs against Harborne, taking five for 31 in Harborne’s first innings; and on 19 June he went with a full Hampshire first-team to Newport to play a twelve-a-side match against the Isle of Wight. Hampshire, or two of their players at least, seem to have taken this game pretty seriously: Kennedy and Newman bowled unchanged in the island’s first innings of 94, and then opened the batting together in Hampshire’s innings. Hyland was finally given a chance to bowl when the island batted again, after Hampshire had declared at 235 for five (Hyland dnb), and he took one wicket as they reached 67 for five before the game ended. And that seems to have been that for Fred Hyland’s county career. The county were back to full strength for their next Championship match on 25 June at Portsmouth, and I have not traced any further record of him playing at anything approaching this level thereafter. We do, however, have records of how much he earned from his brief flirtation with the county 47 The game at Trent Bridge was Smith’s last first-class match, and Bowell’s last for Hampshire. The latter played his third and final first-class match for Northamptonshire in a non-Championship match in 1925, as noted in Chapter Five. Of the Late Frederick J.Hyland, again The images have been removed due to copyright restrictions .