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

80 what it is like outside, inside the shed, warmed by hot water pipes and with light shining like the sun, one is taken back into a summer’s day at Taunton, or Bath or Weston super Mare. All that is missing are the umpires. Even on Christmas Day play continues ...” The shed warmed by those pipes was nevertheless still remembered by others (for example Geoffrey Boycott and Don Wilson) as being icy cold beyond belief! Still to be protected from the worst of the elements and to be able to play cricket indoors in the middle of winter can come – as it did to the author of this work, years later – as a wonderful discovery. A cricket school is founded