Lives in Cricket No 23 - Brief Candles

Contents Preface 5 Chapter One The Unlikeliest Test Cricketer 7 Emile McMaster Chapter Two Of the Late Frederick J.Hyland, again 24 F.J.Hyland Chapter Three Never Seen 38 Josiah Coulthurst, Percy Herbert, Thomas Hearne Chapter Four Runs Aplenty 56 Michael Harbottle, Stuart Moffat Chapter Five In the Wickets 72 Robert Gregory, H.M.Hinde, Dick Wooster Chapter Six First Ballers, and a Mystery 93 F.W.Wilkinson, Jack Johns, Jack Lee Chapter Seven A Life in Cricket 109 Bob Richards Acknowledgements 120 Bibliography 122 Appendix Some Statistics 124 Index 126 3