Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

Acknowledgements Very special recognition is due to Ernest Hayes’ family, who recognised that our subject’s scrapbooks would one day have a value to historians, and in particular to his nephew, Christopher Hayes, now deceased, who presented his scrapbooks to Surrey County Cricket Club’s library, thus making them available to researchers. My own thanks are due to Mark Ramprakash, now with 103 first-class centuries under his belt, for contributing his foreword on his Surrey predecessor; to Maurice Alexander, for much detailed information on Honor Oak Cricket Club and Hayes’ involvement with it; to Vicki Clark and Polly Rhodes for checking the first draft of the manuscript; to Suzanne Foster, Winchester College archivist, for information on Hayes’ time at the College; to Jo Miller, Members Liaison Officer at Surrey County Cricket Club, for her help in the library generally and reproduction of illustrations from Hayes’ scrapbooks in particular; to Peter Wynne-Thomas for providing me with information from his unpublished index to The Cricketer ; to Brian Hunt and Durham County Cricket Club for examples of the Ernie Hayes’ scorebook; to Mike Spurrier, for his expertise on military decorations; and to my wife, Jennifer, for her customary assiduous and detailed research and proofreading help. My thanks are due also to staff at the British Newspaper Library, Colindale; the Southwark Local Studies Centre; the Surrey Cricket Library at The Oval; and the Surrey History Centre, Woking for assistance in their various ways. In the production of the book, thanks are owed to David Jeater, the editor of the series for refining and amplifying the text; to Philip Bailey for his help with statistical questions; to Peter Griffiths for his typesetting and other aspects of its printing; to Zahra Ridge for her cover design; and to Raymond Hart and Gerald Hudd for their proofreading. 118