Lives in Cricket No 38 - Lionel Robinson

LIVES IN CRICKET Lionel Robinson Cricket at Old Buckenham STEPHEN MUSK ACS PUBLICATIONS Lionel ‘Robby’ Robinson, Australian financier made good, settled at Old Buckenham Hall in the Norfolk countryside. There he hosted the 1912 South African tourists, the 1919 Australian AIF team, and most famously and intriguingly Warwick Armstrong’s 1921 Australians. Former England captain Archie MacLaren ran Robinson’s cricket affairs. The ‘country house’ hospitality drew many of the notable players of the era, such as Michael Falcon, the subject of Lives in Cricket: 15. As in that book, Stephen Musk roots his story in Norfolk, and the wider world of cricket, and traces links to MacLaren’s famous win over the 1921 tourists at Eastbourne. Plus more than 50 illustrations. £14.00 Old Buckenham Hall Ground 100 years on with modern pavilion and electronic scoreboard. Lionel’s rustic thatched pavilion was sited to the right where the nets now stand. (Tom Walshe)