Lives in Cricket No 45 - Brief Candles 2

115 Corrections and updates to the first volume of ‘Brief Candles’ Some of the corrections were incorporated in the book’s October 2012 reprint. Page 11-18: From scorecards in Cricket it has been found that McMaster played several club matches in England in each season from 1883 to 1889 inclusive, mostly for Ne’er-Do-Weels. He scored a century (100 not out) for this club v Hampstead in June 1886. Later, in South Africa, he took all ten wickets for 35 when playing for the Western Province club v Somerset at Newlands in January 1891 (he also top scored with 47 in the Province innings), and scored 163 for Civilians v Dragoon Guards at Pietermaritzburg in November 1892. His last appearances in scorecards in Cricket were in three matches for Ne’er-Do-Weels in June 1893. Page 22: In the fourth bullet-point, the figure of ‘four’ should be amended to ‘five’, with the name of E.J.Tyler added; and in the sixth bullet-point, the figure of 11 should be corrected to 15. Page 30: The illustration is of the Hampshire scorebook, not the Northamptonshire one. Pages 35; 38-39: C.Lawrence should be deleted from the list on page 35 of those having short first-class careers – the player concerned was actually another first- class cricketer playing under an alias. J.N.Dudlow should be promoted from the second table on page 38 to the first table on that page. Like P.Herbert (definitely) and T.J.Hearne (probably), Dudlow was very probably not present for any of the play in his only first-class match. J.T.Griffiths and P.G.Peiser should be deleted from the second table on page 38, as it is now known that they both took the field briefly in their respective matches. For fuller explanations of the above changes to the tables on pp 35 and 38-39, please see the article ‘Four Candles’ in The Cricket Statistician no. 163 (Autumn 2013), pp 16-20. Page 54: The five players listed in the fourth bullet-point were due to play for Queensland, not for Victoria as stated. Queensland were forced to pick a weakened side for this match because of a dispute between the QCA and several leading players. From reports in contemporary newspapers, all five of the named players appear to have been ‘bowlers who can bat’, with Harding having the strongest claim to all-rounder status. Jack Pizzey went on to become Premier of Queensland from January 1968 until his death six months later. Page 90: Three lines above the illustration on this page, Wooster’s analysis should read 6.2-0-25-5: he had not yet completed his only maiden over of the innings. Pages 109, 114: In paragraph 3 on p. 109, Bob Richards was born on 5 June, not 5 August, in 1934. The final paragraph on page 114 should state that he bats right- handed, not left-handed. Richards was still playing in September 2016, three months after his 82nd birthday.