Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

43 ‘For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast, and a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost’ – Yes, yes, Francis, but do tell us about your Hornby and your Barlow’s skillsets. Moores was sacked as England coach in January 2009 after a rift with the then-captain Kevin Pietersen and was appointed Lancashire coach five weeks later. In 2011, he led the Red Rose county to their first outright County Championship win in 77 years. The Hornby-Barlow partnership begins Caricature drawn at Old Trafford in 1887, when Hornby caught two off Barlow who took 8 for 26 in Nottinghamshire’s first innings.