Lives in Cricket No 50 - Tom Emmett

3 Contents Chapter One Legend and legacy 5 Chapter Two Early days (1841-1866) 8 Chapter Three A man in demand (1867-1871) 17 Chapter Four The Great All-rounder (1872-77) 35 Chapter Five Yorkshire Captain (1878-1883) 51 Chapter Six ‘Owd Evergreen’ (1884-1888) 79 Chapter Seven Later years (1889-1904) 92 Chapter Eight Personality, performance and popularity 112 Acknowledgements 131 Statistics 132 Bibliography 136 Endnotes 138 Index 140