Lives in Cricket No 23 - Brief Candles

96 First Ballers, and a Mystery Ely City eleven of 1936, in F.W.Wilkinson’s thirteenth season with the club. Standing (l to r): E.B.Oakey, F.Morton, T.W.J.Mott, J.C.Rains, S.H.Porter, W.G.Eagle, F.Roberson. Seated: P.L.J.Oakey, F.W.Wilkinson, C.C.Broker, P.S.Morton, J.Tannahill. On the ground: R.C.Blackwell, R.H.Morton. Four of Wilkinson’s colleagues played for Cambridgeshire at one time or another. F.W.Wilkinson, seated far right, with the King’s School, Ely eleven of 1949. The side won six of its seventeen matches.