The Erratic Syd Emery by Pat Rodgers

Chapter 1 “One of the few unplayable balls I have seen”.

LORDS 1912
Syd had been warned about the chance of rain interrupting play during a so-called English summer. The dampness in the air on the first morning of the Lord’s Test on 24 June 1912 seemed to confirm this. He and his teammates had entered the field with black mourning bands on their left upper arms in memory of their friend Ernest Hume

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