Lives in Cricket No 48 - Maurice Leyland

151 Against the odds little more self-conscious than usual. There was a danger of expecting too much from the surgery. The fact is there was some improvement in the tremor, and with that some increased control, but it was not to be the miracle cure that some were hoping for. Still, Scarborough was Scarborough and being back in the midst of the Festival was a tonic in itself. During the winter and on through the following spring Maurice was once again working in the nets with the up and coming players and also helping with pre-season preparations for the first team. The summer of 1959 was destined to be one that no one at the club would ever forget. A menu card for an April 1960 dinner in Leeds of the ‘Yorkshire Circus’. As one of the interwar players Maurice was invited as one of the ‘performers’, and former captains Sir William Worsley, Alan Barber, Frank Greenwood and Brian Sellers as ‘ringmasters’