Lives in Cricket No 25 - Tom Richardson

Contents Foreword by David Richardson 5 Foreword by Martin Bicknell 6 Preface 7 Chapter One Family Background 8 Chapter Two Mitcham 13 Chapter Three 1892/94 Surrey… and England 21 Chapter Four 1894/95 Australia 35 Chapter Five 1895… Annus Mirabilis..Surrey 42 Chapter Six 1896… Annus Mirabilis..England 49 Chapter Seven 1897… Jubilee and Millennium 58 Chapter Eight 1897/98 Australia again 64 Chapter Nine 1898/1900 Fin-de-siècle 72 Chapter Ten 1901/12 The Twilight’s Last Gleaming 82 Chapter Eleven Technique and Personality 99 Chapter Twelve Bout-du-Monde 107 Appendix A Career Statistics 122 Appendix B Family Tree 125 Appendix C1 First-Class Cricketers in the Richardson family 126 Appendix C2 … and their Playing Records 127 Appendix D Chronology 129 Acknowledgements 132 Bibliography 134 Index 136 3