Lives in Cricket No 42 - Frank and George Mann

3 Contents Introduction 5 Chapter One Mann, Crossman and Paulin: 1819 to 1914 7 Chapter Two Winchmore Hill Cricket Club 12 Chapter Three Education and Progress of Four Brothers 14 Chapter Four Frank Mann and Middlesex: 1912 to 1914 18 Chapter Five The Great War: 1914 to 1918 21 Chapter Six Warner and his ‘Sandbank’ 25 Chapter Seven A New Captain for Middlesex 39 Chapter Eight A New Captain for England 45 Chapter Nine MCC in South Africa: 1922/1923 52 Chapter Ten The Search for Test Players: 1923 61 Chapter Eleven The Title Race Turns Nasty: 1924 65 Chapter Twelve Northern Counties Rule: 1925 to 1928 69 Chapter Thirteen Frank Mann: Test Selector 75 Chapter Fourteen Education and War-Time 79 Chapter Fifteen Post-War Gloom and a Glorious Summer 83 Chapter Sixteen MCC in South Africa: 1948/49 89 Chapter Seventeen Captaincy Decisions 98 Chapter Eighteen The Creation of Watney Mann 104 Chapter Nineteen Take-Overs and New Responsibilities 109 Acknowledgements 114 Select Bibliography 115 Appendix One Career Statistics 117 Appendix Two Cricket-Playing Brewers 121 Index 122