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

30 Hirst’s and it is as such that we can get the context of a photograph I have seen but unfortunately cannot locate of Sutcliffe – still a young man – coaching a teenage Lawrence and his peers with their batting – so this must be about 1927 to 1930. Hirst at the same time as coaching Yorkshire was coach at Eton College until 1938. It is interesting that Harrow had Wilfrid Rhodes as their coach. Both had been such great players but Hirst – outgoing and effusive – was so much the better coach than the more introverted Rhodes that Eton beat Harrow in all but one of the matches at Lord’s during this period. We learn that Johnny acquired an old banger of a motor car – one can speculate that this must have been in the early or Starting to make his way up the cricketing ladder Yorkshire coach Emmott Robinson, unknown, Johnny Lawrence and Jim Laker; believed to be at Headingley nets.