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

3 Contents Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Boycott 5 Preamble 6 Acknowledgements 11 Chapter One An exceedingly slow bowler 14 Chapter Two Early days 20 Chapter Three Starting to make his way up the cricketing ladder 29 Chapter Four A Professional in League Cricket from 1934 33 Chapter Five Marriage and a move to Liverpool Northern and back 39 Chapter Six Saying no to war: a devout and principled man becomes a conscientious objector 46 Chapter Seven A close friendship develops 49 Chapter Eight Wartime in the Bradford League 53 Chapter Nine One interesting match 57 Chapter Ten Lawrence’s playing art and his love of being competitive 60 Chapter Eleven A man of his times becomes a role model for other players 64 Chapter Twelve A cricket school is founded 75 Chapter Thirteen A decade in first-class cricket: 81 Somerset’s fluctuating fortunes 1946-51 81 Raising spirits of a county at rock bottom 1952-55 99 His time at Somerset – a statistical view 116