Lives in Cricket No 7 - Richard Daft

matches against odds and fourteen matches between teams of first-class status, but only two of them were for Notts, both against Surrey. In matches recorded in Scores and Biographies that year, he scored 1,248 runs. Daft was tangentially involved with the English cricket tour to Australia, which was scheduled to take place during the winter of 1861/62, to the extent that like most of the senior English professionals, he refused to have anything to do with the adventure, although he claimed that he was told to name his price. Richard later told Old Ebor (A.W.Pullin): ‘I declined to state a price. I could not see my way to go at the time.’ So a team led by Heathfield Harman Stephenson left on S.S.Great Britain without him. Richard never made it to Australia. 30 Professional Nottinghamshire’s side of 1862, which won three of its four first-class matches. Standing (l to r): R.Daft, J.Grundy, G.Parr (captain), G.Anderson (umpire), Rev A. Bateman, J.Jackson, C.Brampton, J.Johnson (Honorary Secretary), G.Wootton and A.Clarke. On the ground: R.C.Tinley, C.F.Daft and S.Biddulph (wk).