Lives in Cricket No 40 - Edwin Smith

62 remember that summer? I enjoyed it, though perhaps not as much as the batsmen did! Donald and Arnold were in fine form all summer and it was a pleasure to watch them both when they were in full flow. Laurie Johnson finally made the runs that he had hinted at for years and we looked a decent batting side that summer. In the middle of June we were top of the table, but then we had a bad run and seventh place was probably a fair reflection on the cricket we played. Harold Rhodes was capped against India and on the hard wickets bowled very quickly. He looked set for a long and glittering international career, but as events were to prove, it was not to be. A decade ends Around the wicket.