Lives in Cricket No 48 - Maurice Leyland

LIVES IN CRICKET Maurice Leyland by Mike Popplewell £15 ACS Publications Maurice Leyland was a pillar of powerful Yorkshire and England sides between the world wars. The left- handed batsman’s nine centuries in 41 Tests included 187 at the Oval in 1938, when he shared a second-wicket partnership of 382 with Len Hutton, still an England record. The Bodyline tourist was also, as one teammate said in a tribute on his death, ‘such a good man’; does that explain why this is the first biography of him?