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

45 to Taunton as on August 30 and 31, Somerset firsts hurried to beat Northamptonshire in two days (in a three day county match) by an innings. Joe Hardstaff (senior) was indeed umpiring in that match and the two must have then returned north. The next day, September 1, Germany invaded Poland and by the end of the morning of September 3 the official British declaration of war had come. Countless careers like Johnny’s were held in abeyance and some – tragically – were never to be resumed. Marriage and a move to Liverpool Northern and back