Lives in Cricket No 38 - Lionel Robinson

65 Charles Kelleway as skipper after just six games), all-rounder Jack Gregory and keeper Bert Oldfield were all marked down for future greatness but when the side came to Old Buckenham the players were still just names for their match against Robinson’s XII was the opening fixture of their tour. 50 They were opposed by a strong side containing seven players who had played Test cricket, or who would later do so, with the rest of the team being made up of cricketers from Kent – unsurprisingly Archie entrusted the captaincy to Jack Mason, now one of the grand old men of Kentish 50 Something seems to have gone amiss with the selection of Robinson’s side for 12 players presented themselves for duty on the day. Luckily the AIF were amenable to playing a XII-a-side match and no-one was forced to drop out. The Great War The AIF in the field 1919. They played their first match at Old Buckenham. (Roger Mann) The AIF taking the field 1919 (left to right) W. L. Trennery, H. L. Collins, C. T. Docker (hidden), C. Kelleway, J. T. Murray, E. J. Long, A. W. Lampard, J. M. Taylor, C. B. Willis, J. M Gregory, W. S. Stirling. (Roger Mann)