Lives in Cricket No 50 - Tom Emmett

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeremy Lonsdale was born in Hornsea, East Yorkshire. He has followed Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Hull City since the early 1970s, and watches both as often as possible. In four months in 2014, he had the unexpected double pleasure of being present both when Hull City played in the FA Cup Final at Wembley and Yorkshire secured the county championship at Trent Bridge. He is the author of ‘A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power’, published by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians in 2017, which is a social history of the development of cricket in the county in the 19 th century. The book was long-listed for the Cricket Society/MCC Cricket Book of the Year Award 2018. He also wrote ‘The Army’s Grace: The Life of Brigadier General R.M.Poore’, published by Spellmount in 1992, and has contributed articles to the Yorkshire CCC Yearbook. He studied history at King’s College, University of London, and has a PhD from Brunel University in public management and evaluation.