Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

Dear Lord Alverstone Not having the pleasure of knowing personally any of the Surrey Cricket Committee I write to say that E.G.Hayes, who has been one of my team touring in the West Indies for the last three months, has done great work from the first match to the last and a more charming man to have had on a cricket tour I could not have asked for. I hope you will inform the Surrey C.C.C of the above. 7 Brackley His tour was a playing success, too. Overall, he was the leading run-scorer, with 925 runs at 38.54, and had the highest innings on the tour, 173 against St Lucia in a two-day game. He was ‘the leading all-round man’, according to Wisden , scoring in nine first-class matches 425 runs, including two centuries, and taking 26 wickets. Wisden thought ‘his fielding wherever he was placed’ was ‘superb.’ Overseas Trips and Chaos at The Oval 48 7 No doubt Hayes reported on Lord Brackley’s behaviour to his own peers in the Surrey professionals’ dressing room.