Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

give a fascinating insight into the life and times of a modest and unassuming man and one perhaps unappreciated and under-rated as a professional cricketer and contributor to society. Ernest Hayes has had brief walk-on parts in three of my earlier books – as designer of the Ernie Hayes scorebook, as a visitor to George Lohmann and as a mourner at C.W.Alcock’s funeral. The time has come for him to occupy centre-stage for a change, as well as adding a batsman to join a wicket-keeper, administrator and bowler in the author’s canon of Surrey biography. Keith Booth Sutton, Surrey October, 2008 Preface 8