Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

opportunity to demonstrate their social skills as well as their cricketing ones. One reporter comments: The Surrey team are not only famous as cricketers but on the society side. Brockwell has a home and colonial for good luck, and ‘Tina’ Hayes, with his taut moustache, is also first favourite with the ladies, and quite the Adonis of the Oval. Tom Richardson supplies the manly type of fiery beauty, and then ‘Glassy’ Osborne and Charlie Mills are of the robust style, Henry Clodes the statuesque face . . . However, on cricket matters, the press in general were critical of the selectors for overlooking the pride of Honor Oak. He played for the Players against the Gentlemen at Hastings and for the Rest of England v Middlesex, the champion county, at The Oval, his first representative matches: he was one of only four in the ‘Rest’ side not to be included in MCC’s tour to Australia. 38 Coaching in South Africa and then a County Stalwart