Lives in Cricket No 48 - Maurice Leyland

Maurice in 1918: ‘The best looking kid in the British Army’, his mother wrote in her scrapbook 41 These were important days for Maurice and he never forgot his time in the Saddleworth area. In later life he returned time and again to visit his old club. He was also much in demand as a guest at the annual prize giving evenings of other local clubs and, with the Yorkshire side between the wars, he never missed the annual end of season charity game at Greenfield against Harold Tanner’s