Lives in Cricket No 36 - WE Astill

184 Index A page number in bold indicates an illustration. Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool 41, 126 Ajmer, India 106 Alletson, E.B. 25, 168 Amateur Billiards Championship of England 85, 86 Ames, L.E.G. 127 Armstrong, N.F. 123, 131, 136, 141, 147, 149, 155 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bath Grounds 50, 51, 74, 99, 137, Astill, origins of surname   11-12 Astill, John Allmon (grandfather)   10,11 Astill (née Geary), Emma (grandmother)  10,11 Asill, Ezra (father)   10, 11, 13 , 13-18 Astill (nee Preston), Frances (mother)   11, 13, 13 Astill, William Ewart accounts clerk   18, 21, 53 all-rounder   5, 57, 63, 68, 122, 129, 130, 163, 167 Army cricket   55, 56, 157 Army officer commission   54, 156 Army service in First World War    54,  54-56 Army service in Second World War   156, 156 asthma   33, 94, 95, 156, 157, 163, 164 banjo/ukulele player   93, 111, 112, 145 baptism   13 batting methods   56, 57, 60, 61, 61 , 62, 62 , 63-65 benefits   72, 73, 73 , 132-134 best first-class bowling return   77, 77 ‘Bill’ as nickname   14, 14 billiards player   37, 61, 71, 85-88, 87 , 93, 158, 162 birth and birthdate   5, 8-11, 13, 14, 16, 93, 118 bowling methods   26, 29, 31-34, 34 , 35-44, 46, 49, 69, 150 bowls player    89 , 90 boyhood at Ratby   8, 9, 12 , 13, 15-18 Broadhalfpenny Down match (1908)   30 Cahn’s XI,   124, 125 , 146, 151, 152 captaincy   6,18, 55, 66, 99, 124, 140, 141 , 142, 143, 145, 146 , 147 , 148,  149 , 150-154, 170 ‘cheque in lieu of benefit’   148 club cricket in Leicester   18, 19, 21, 73 coach of Leicestershire   151, 154-156, 164 coaching at Tonbridge School   6, 32, 38, 157-163 coaching in Jamaica   154, see also 175 coaching in South Africa   80, 81, 91 coaching in Southern Rhodesia   163, 165 company director   71, 72 Corrall injury ‘incident’   41 ‘Crusoe’ article   5, 21, 44 death   164, 165 diamond ring, loss of   124 ‘double’, completion of   6, 68, 71, 72, 75, 78, 80, 81, 84, 100, 123, 125-126, 130 education   16-18, 17 ‘emigration’ to Rhodesia   163 estate at death   164 fielding   65-67, 135 first-class cricket in Great Britain 1906  22-24 1907  25-28,  25 , 31, 44 1908  28-30, 44 1909  39, 44-46 1910  37, 46, 47, 65, 66 1911  47-49 1912  49-50, 57, 60 1913  51-53 1914  53 1919  56 1920  56-59, 64 1921  60, 68-72 1922  72-75 1923  75-77, 77 , 78 1924  78-80 1925   66 , 81-84 1926  41, 63, 98-100 1927  115-118, 116,  143 1928  123, 123 , 124 1929  125-127 1930  130, 131, 131 , 132 1931  132-134 1932  134, 135 1933  39, 41, 135, 136 , 137 1934  40, 41, 137-139 1935  140-143, 145, 146 , 147,  148