Lives in Cricket No 50 - Tom Emmett

7 benefit than his Yorkshire contemporaries until George Ulyett, some 10 years later. Tom Emmett was a sporting pioneer and a cricketing innovator, experimenting in truly eccentric fashion as a bowler. He started off as a youngster bowling under-arm, and then developed to round-arm and over- arm bowling. He was also a unique personality, positive and humorous at a time when many professionals had reputations for being dour and cautious. When he was too old to play at the highest level, he found people were keen to pay him to pass on his wisdom for a further decade or more. Yet his full and, no doubt at times, exhausting life was also marked by tragedy from an early age through to his untimely death in 1904. His energy, enthusiasm, good humour and resilience in handling these highs and lows characterise the true spirit of Yorkshire cricket. Legend and legacy