Lives in Cricket No 42 - Frank and George Mann

64 The Search for Test Players: 1923 once again looking at players who might feature on the selectors’ shortlist of contenders for Test-match places when the 1924 season began, in particular Macaulay, Gilligan, Tate, Sutcliffe, and Kilner. 30 30 He seems not have taken this match too seriously. Fred Root, in his well- known autobiography, A Cricket Pro’s Lot , said of this match that Frank commented on his leg-theory fielding positions: ‘Put them where you like, Fred: it’s beyond me.’