Lives in Cricket No 9 - JH King

was a somewhat better bat, though a failure in his six Test matches, and that King was a somewhat better bowler, despite a very slightly inferior average. 10 No moving film of King exists. Beldam and Fry, however, chose fortunately for us to illustrate technique with four photographs of him as batsman and four as bowler. Chevallier Tayler furthers slightly our study of him in the former rôle since his chalk drawing on dark grey paper, probably based upon one of Beldam’s unpublished photographs, shows a position mid-way between the third and fourth of those in Great Batsmen: their Methods at a Glance but with front toe raised. Such dependence would not be surprising since prints of Tayler’s 48 drawings of cricketers first appeared in weekly parts put out by the Art Society in 1905, the Technique and Style 29 Compare and contrast. On the left, Knight’s rigidity leaves a bat/pad gap: King’s stance has a more ‘modern’ relaxed approach. 10 In all first-class matches Gunn scored 24,557 runs, with 40 centuries, at an average of 33.18 and took 1,242 wickets at an average of 24.52. He held 246 catches.