Lives in Cricket No 34 - Frank Mitchell

22 Littlehampton that season. Both the 1893 centuries, as well as the one in 1891, are recorded in James Lillywhite’s Cricketer’s Annual (‘Red Lilly’). His final match in Sussex that year receives a brief mention in The Peterite. The match may have been his intended swansong, for in Frank Mitchell’s XI v Brighton College, played also in July, he scored 88 and took five for 25. The result is not recorded but can hardly have been in doubt, and so he left Greyfriars School and Sussex to make his way, via a holiday in Yorkshire, to Gonville & Caius College at Cambridge. Yet the connection with Sussex cricket was not quite over. In the Minute Book for the County Club for 18 May 1894 there is the following entry: ‘The Secretary was requested to write to Mr F.Mitchell at Cambridge and ask him if he would play for Sussex, and if so when he would be able to do so’. The Secretary did write, and Frank Mitchell declined. The pull of Yorkshire CCC was already too strong. Cricket in Sussex, 1891-93 In August 1892, Mitchell returned from Brighton and helped his local club to a big cup final win.