Lives in Cricket No 25 - Tom Richardson

71 team up again in the same England side as his fast-bowling colleague for whom this tour marked the beginning of a gradual decline. Richardson was never to play for England again. In fourteen Test matches he had distinguished himself with eleven five-wicket innings and four ten-wicket matches. He remains the only English bowler to achieve the latter; Briggs and Lohmann have three to their credit, no one else more than two. Australia 1897/98 A Tom Richardson Miniature donated to Surrey County Cricket Club ‘in memory of his visit to Australia’. The Inscription on the back reads “To Tom Richardson in memory of his visit to Australia from C. Roberts 17/2/1898”. [Surrey County Cricket Club Museum]