A History of Cricket at King Edward's School, BIrmingham

update the material by writing the history of cricket at KES over the last fifty years. Sadly, such an exercise is probably not possible, because of the lack of information about cricket in the School Chronicle as from about 1967, when its format changed dramatically, until the 1990s, which means that we know much more about the 1870s and the 1880s than about what happened a century later. Such information as I was able to gather about the 1970s and the 1980s for the purposes of the matches and records documents owes a great deal to material provided by OEs such as John Evans and Alexander Rennie, who answered a plea for assistance I made in the Old Edwardians Gazette. While this request did not produce as much information about this era as I had hoped, it did result in a letter from Kenneth Wyatt, one of the great players of the 1920s – and a friendship that lasted until the end of his life. The qualification referred to above relates to the first one and a half chapters, where there is now so much new information that it was not possible simply to try and tinker with the existing text. This section has therefore been rewritten to take account of what is now known. The rest of the work remains much as it was, viewing the subject from the perspective of a then very recent Old Edwardian, still fascinated by what he had just discovered from the pages of the School Chronicle, all those years ago. PRH Perth, Western Australia, 30 July 2018 When I wrote the above words, I thought that there would be no need to add anything else. However, further work by Harry Watton OE has produced a large number of previously unknown match scores, plus additional information about known matches, particularly for the years prior to 1872. This research has now been incorporated in the latest edition, along with other corrections where necessary, notably to the seasonal totals of matches won and lost, in light of the new information now available. It is hoped that this may now be the definitive version – but one can never be sure that there is nothing left to discover . . . . PRH Perth, Western Australia, 30 July 2021