Lives in Cricket No 52 - Schooled in Cricket (2nd edition)

160 against their friends from the Wombwell Society. In all Johnny only missed three Boxing Day matches for Society between 1949 and 1978 when he played his final match which is the first time his youngest son Stephen plays, but the fixture has survived to the present and has been at the Homestead, North Leeds since 1971. Northern Cricket Society has not always maintained its ascendancy in the fixture as in Johnny’s days but is striving to reconquer those glory days. Two phenomena The strip requires some late work to ready it for a snowier Boxing Day game. Johnny smiles to the right of the wicket.