Lives in Cricket No 3 - George Duckworth

Cambridge, but Gregor McGregor, who represented Middlesex and won eight Test caps, as well as playing rugby for Scotland, was obviously the preferred candidate. Turn, next, to D.J.Leighton’s 2005 biography of Montague Druitt, Jack the Ripper suspect and one of David Frith’s absorbing roster of cricketer-suicides, although his biographer suggests that Druitt may have been murdered and that Arthur Conan Doyle was the ripper. Therein is a photograph of Virginia Woolf playing cricket with her brother, Adrian. She is also keeping wicket. Her alleged abuser, the other George Duckworth, had to content himself vicariously as a wicket-keeper. We are told by Gerald Howat that, ‘in his leisure moments he would occasionally watch his namesake’. Thousands would follow his example. The Background 21