Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yorkshire-born Keith Booth has completed fourteen seasons as 1st XI scorer to Surrey County Cricket Club, having previously worked with Middlesex, MCC and the BBC’s Test Match Special team. He has officiated at around eighty international matches, including a spell with Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup. It is part of a second career – after retailing and university administration – which includes the authorship of half a dozen books, the most recent ones biographies on contrasting, but complementary Surrey giants Edward Pooley, Charles Alcock and George Lohmann. Ernie Hayes, based mainly on the subject’s own scrapbooks, represents his furthest venture into the twentieth century. ‘The Father of Modern Sport’ was short-listed for the Cricket Society’s Book of the Year Award for 2002. ‘George Lohmann: Pioneer Professional’ went one better and won it five years later.