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Arthur Milton - Last of the Double Internationals (Hardcover)
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Arthur Milton was surely the last of that rare breed - a man good
enough to play cricket and football for England. Twelve have had
that rare distinction but the all-year-round nature of both sports
makes it impossible that the feat will happen again. Arthur had
played 12 games for Arsenal when he was called up to play against
Austria in 1951 because two legends, Stanley Matthews and Tom
Finney, were unavailable. He decided to concentrate on cricket at
the relatively young age of 29 in 1955 and Arsenal sold him to his
home town club, Bristol City, for whom he made 14 appearances. He
had played 84 times for Arsenal, scoring 21 times. Although he had
been picked as 12th man for the series against Australia in 1953
(and again against South Africa in 1955) he did not play his first
Test until 1958. Coincidentally, he opened the innings against New
Zealand at Headingley with Mike Smith, who was a double rugby and
cricket England international. Milton scored 104 not out. That
performance put him in the squad to visit Australia. He finished
his six-Test career with 204 runs at 25.50. He was more at home
playing for Gloucestershire, which he did from 1948 until 1974. He
finished with more than 32,000 runs and 56 hundreds in first-class
cricket. He was also outstanding in the field with 758 catches. In
retirement he became a postman in Bristol and later a paper boy
because he still wanted to cycle over the Downs in Bristol in the
early morning. He received an honorary MA from Bristol University
and could ask with a chuckle how many universities gave a degree to
someone who delivered their papers! He asked former Worcestershire
secretary Mike Vockins to work on the book with him but sadly died
midway through the project. Mike finished the book by speaking to
many of the people who Arthur met in his long and distinguished
career. As well as being a prominent figure in the world of
cricket, having managed England A tours to Australia and Pakistan,
Mike Vockins is Rural Dean of Ledbury and as a Prebendary of
Hereford Cathedral. He is also a member of the ECB's Major Match
Group responsible for recommending the allocation of Test Matches,
One-Day Internationals and the finals of domestic competitions. He
lives with his wife Eileen on the north western slopes of the
Malvern Hills in a cottage in which Sir Edward Elgar composed The
Dream of Gerontius.
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