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

185 hours as possible in that net. He went to Leicestershire after limited appearances for Yorkshire including having been ‘dropped’ from the side after scoring 181 not out, having only come into the side as Ken Taylor was away playing for MCC and having to give way on Taylor’s return, and finished his first-class career a little early – troubled by injury at the age of 32. He went on to umpire more Test matches than anyone else in history to date. His autobiography had at the time I met him sold more copies than any other sporting autobiography to date with the possible exception of David Beckham. It is the best selling cricket book of any kind. Geoff Cope Geoff Cope of Yorkshire and England was, as a teenager, an enthusiastic attender of Johnny’s nets but was never coached by Johnny. As Stephen Chalke says, Johnny Lawrence “ran a cricket school in a specifically built school in his garden”. Geoff had been there with Leeds Zingari and he started to go more often (when he joined Leeds CC A few of his proteges A group portrait for the newspaper cameraman of Johnny coaching; a young Geoff Cope has the ball on the right.