Lives in Cricket No 7 - Richard Daft

Contents Foreword 7 Chapter One: Nottingham, Queen of the Midlands 9 Chapter Two: Advancement in Life 13 Chapter Three: The All England Eleven 19 Chapter Four: Professional 24 Chapter Five: More at Home 31 Chapter Six: Comparisons 36 Chapter Seven: County Cricket 39 Chapter Eight: Nottinghamshire Captain 47 Chapter Nine: The Graces and the Counties 51 Chapter Ten: More of the County Championship 57 Chapter Eleven: Gentlemen and Players 63 Chapter Twelve: Benefit in Kind 72 Chapter Thirteen: Notts Without Shaw 79 Chapter Fourteen: Arrival of the Australians 82 Chapter Fifteen: Eighteen Seventy Nine 87 Chapter Sixteen: America 91 Chapter Seventeen: Triumph and Tribulation 96 Chapter Eighteen: Many Preoccupations 106 Chapter Nineteen: A Match Too Far? 112 Chapter Twenty: Kings of Cricket 117 Chapter Twenty-One: Winding Up 126 Chapter Twenty-Two: Post Mortem 133 Acknowledgements 138 Bibliography 140 Appendix One: Some Statistics 143 Appendix Two: Benefit Match Scorecard 146 3