Lives in Cricket No 6 - Bill Copson

Contents Foreword 4 Chapter One: Early Days and Family Origins 7 Chapter Two: Starting in First-Class Cricket 16 Chapter Three: Annus Mirabilis 24 Chapter Four: Australia and New Zealand 33 Chapter Five: Test Cricket, At Last 45 Chapter Six: World War Two 58 Chapter Seven: Final First-Class Seasons 65 Chapter Eight: Umpiring and Retirement 77 Acknowledgements 86 Bibliography 87 Appendix One: Some Statistics 89