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

90 the same story to Stephen Chalke who describes it in his Cricket Allsorts: “The day before Somerset’s first game of 1947 (against Middlesex at Lord’s), his first game as captain, Jack Meyer assembled them all [all the team] in the old Taunton pavilion to run through their fielding positions for the next day.” The rest of this little story is in Eric Hill’s own words: “RJO [Meyer, that is] had a piece of paper, and we were instructed to go into our positions as if we were in the field. We were in the amateur dressing room; there was more room in there. ‘Bertie’s on at this end, making ‘em boom a bit … Right. That’s the end of Bertie, now it’s Arthur.’ And we all had to swap round for Arthur at the other end. A first class career with Somerset Jack Meyer, cricketer and headmaster, with some members of the Lawrence household: Pauline, Johnny, Miles and the family dog.