Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

42 from each other. Hornby Road, which is nearer to Old Trafford football ground than Barlow Road, contains 26 semi-detached houses. There is, appropriately, also a Hornby Drive in Nantwich. The Guardian ’s Marina Hyde introduced Hornby and Barlow into her column on 26 February, 2009. In a piece about the England and Wales Cricket Board employing head hunters Odgers Ray to help in their search for a new coach to replace Peter Moores, Hyde reported that Odgers Ray chief executive Simon Cummins explained that the new coach ‘should have a skillset that can be respected by all stakeholders’. Hyde wrote: The ECB might feel unwilling to take another lesson in refinement so soon after the last one, but it would be nice to think we could keep this sort of toss out of cricket, which has always seemed so much more elegantly addressed in language we can actually understand, say, or perhaps in Francis Thompson’s famous poem At Lord’s , than by chaps who bang on about stakeholders. The Hornby-Barlow partnership begins Perhaps one of the more unusual dedicatees for a piece of music.