Lives in Cricket No 48 - Maurice Leyland

Field of dreams 124 felt it was worth the pain. Such incidents served to develop the ‘shoulder’ legend that Blunden alluded to in the essay, albeit abbreviated here, written in 1943. Reading that piece again, it appears to be as much prophetical as poetical in parts and when those players emerging from the pavilion finally took their guard for the first ball of the 1946 summer Maurice the entertainer was ready and waiting for one last season at the ‘City of Varieties’ that was Yorkshire cricket.