Lives in Cricket No 45 - Brief Candles 2

3 Contents Preface 5 Chapter One So close 7 Glenn Wilkinson, A.B.Poole, Stanley Rimington, Salim, Bharat Shah Chapter Two Never a run 25 Harry Wilson, Edward Baker and others Chapter Three Number 11 41 Kevin Martin, MauriceTandy, B.A.Collins, George Truman, Leonard Beard Chapter Four No-ball! 61 Ernest Coxon, Franklyn Pitcher, O.H.Gilkes Chapter Five Tragedy 79 Richard Boys, J.J.Boys Chapter Six The oldest of them all 96 Rev Alfred Green-Price Corrections and updates to the first volume of ‘Brief Candles’ 115 Acknowledgements 116 Bibliography 118 Appendix Some Statistics 120 Index 121