Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

Contents Chapter One: The Ashes are born 5 Chapter Two: Born with a silver spoon 16 Chapter Three: Voyage of discovery 1 30 Chapter Four: The Hornby-Barlow partnership begins 35 Chapter Five: Married to Sport 44 Chapter Six: Voyage of discovery 2 54 Chapter Seven: The Boss 68 Chapter Eight: The Crossland and Mold throwing controversies 76 Chapter Nine: The hand of Hornby? 88 Chapter Ten: A Lancashire legend is laid to rest 92 Chapter Eleven: What are we to make of him? 97 The Record that Never Was, and Other Fascinating Facts 103 Acknowledgments 108 Bibliography 109 Appendix 1 Career statistics 112 Appendix 2 Hornby’s last Championship match 115 Index 117 3