Lives in Cricket No 3 - George Duckworth

George Duckworth was wicket-keeper to the mighty Lancashire sides of the twenties and thirties, a Test cricketer and the owner of an ‘Owzat?’ of ‘piercing quality and volume’. Throughout his life he stayed close to industrial Warrington, but there was much more to him than cowheels and tripe and onions. A bright grammar school boy who left school at fifteen because he thought he ought, he was at various times Town Hall office boy, trialist with Warwickshire, farmer, journalist, and a radio and television commentator. In the forties and fifties he organised and managed important Commonwealth tours to the Indian sub-continent when it seemed that Lord’s could not bring itself to make such visits. These tours helped to sustain interest in cricket in those countries when it might have slipped away. Eric Midwinter here makes the case for us to recognise Duckworth as an ambassador, a local man with a truly international perspective. £9.00 George Duckworth Warrington’s Ambassador at Large ERIC MIDWINTER LIVES IN CRICKET ACS PUBLICATIONS GEORGE DUCKWORTH Warrington’s Ambassador at Large ERIC MIDWINTER ACS PUBLICATIONS