Lives in Cricket No 7 - Richard Daft

new ground where Richard was part-proprietor. In mid-June, he had raised a Notts side to play Twenty-two of Wakefield and at the end of July his side took on MCC at Bestwood Park over two days, and immediately after that, Notts opposed an Eleven of Keighley. There is no indication that the county committee objected to this ‘freelancing’, but when Richard’s relations as skipper of Notts with Captain Holden terminated at the end of 1880, the executive took a different view of this activity, with a disastrous effect on their relationship with their professionals. Meanwhile, Richard had been raising a team to tour Canada and the United States. The final Notts fixture against Kent was brought forward by three days to enable them to depart for their voyage across the Atlantic. Any doubts about his own form were put aside amid the anticipation of his first overseas tour on which he embarked at the age of 43. Eighteen Seventy Nine 90