Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

county’s Colts side against the Non-Commissioned Officers and four further three-figure scores for Honor Oak. Add to that about a dozen innings over 40 and it is not difficult to understand his satisfaction and eager anticipation of the following season as he settled down to a winter job in the Surrey offices. He commented in his scrapbook: ‘After . . . my first season’s really hard cricket and entrance into the professional world, I well remember how anxiously and with what pleasant thoughts I wanted to try my luck the following season passing the winter in the office of the S.C.C.C. helping Mr Alcock with his secretarial work.’ A first-class début could not be far distant. Childhood and Early Cricket 16 Surrey’s Second XI in 1895, including Hayes (back row, left), L.C.Braund (middle row, second from right) and W.S.Lees (on the ground, left).