Lives in Cricket No 9 - JH King

batted well, and brought in Jack Sharp, the eminent Everton footballer, as a fast bowler. It now seems natural in this Alice-in-Wonderland rubber that Sharp should have bowled only one over, but have made top score.’ Nevertheless King had once more earned his congratulatory letters and telegrams. It was perhaps on this occasion, though possibly for one of his later performances, that some poetaster – a certain ‘D.C.L. of Narborough House, Leamington’ – penned the following eminently forgettable quatrain: Knigly [sic] and great, renowned afar, In every clime your praises are. Now listen to your subjects’ cheer, Great monarch of old Leicestershire. King was perhaps lucky to have been selected for England in the first place; he was certainly unlucky never to be selected again. The Test-Match Player 75 A hand-drawn cartoon sent to King.