Lives in Cricket No 26 - HV Hesketh-Prichard

67 odd game for MCC) and E.G.Wynyard, who we know well by this time. Only Hayes and Hex had played more than a dozen first-class games in England in the 1904 season. Brackley’s XI played four games in Jamaica, in one of which Teddy Wynyard made 157, and were greeted at length by a column in the Gleaner . There was some unhappiness there as the ship was late and the first day of play lost as a result: they also had only the bare eleven players as, apart from Hex, Powys-Keck was still on his way from New York. Hex joined them at the end of January when they got to Barbados. He had no success in either innings of the first game in Barbados, though he did get to open the batting in the second innings as a nightwatchman, a task he fulfilled, only to be run out immediately the next morning. He did not play against eighteen of Barbados next, missing a chance to fill his wicket-taking boots, but the next game, at Kensington Oval, was against All West Indies. Lord Brackley’s XI won by an innings, but Hex bowled only a few overs and took no wickets. Thompson and Simpson-Hayward took most of them. He then missed the second first-class game against Barbados (which Barbados won) apparently because of ‘his foot being no better’. He then took five for 32 against St Lucia after scoring 39 including three sixes, an extent of hand-eye co-ordination not previously recorded. A contemporary report says Prichard made some astonishing drives, one of his three sixes being fully 130 yards carry. Thompson at the other end One of the Gentlemen The side led by Lord Brackley which played twenty matches in the West Indies in January to April 1905. Standing (l to r): H.V.Hesketh-Prichard, R.C.W.Burn, J.Moss (umpire), G.H.T.Simpson-Hayward, C.H.M.Ebden, G.Bellamy (scorer), A.W.F.Somerset (wk), S.Beton, G.H.Drummond. Seated: G.J.Thompson, E.G.Wynyard, Lord Brackley (capt), C.P.Foley, E.G.Hayes.