Lives in Cricket No 25 - Tom Richardson

couple of years by Lancashire and Yorkshire who had similar aspirations. 66 For Richardson it was £100, but in any case, he had done more than enough to book his passage to Australia. A busy season in which Richardson had sent down something approaching a thousand overs and taken close on two hundred wickets at little over ten each, taken five in an innings on average every week and ten in a match every fortnight, ended in anticlimax as, in a career that was virtually injury- free, he failed to complete the last, non-first-class match of the season, the star-studded W.W.Read - W.G.Grace bonanza at Reigate Priory. Brockwell and Richardson opened the bowling: Though the latter was unfortunately lame and unable to get up his full pace, he soon got rid of Mr Hewett who had not scored. Richardson’s leg, it was found during the interval would not allow him to take the field again (11-5-14-1) … 67 It was a limp end to a spectacular year and no guide to what lay ahead in Australia during the winter and the following three seasons. 66 Sissons The Players pp 95-99 67 Cricket 20 September 1894 33 1892-94 Surrey...and England