It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

As a matter of fact I consider the two finest innings I ever played were in the second Test against Australia in 1921 when I was out for 95 and 93.

We were never allowed to play for averages in the Kent side or take half an hour or more to get the last ten runs under normal conditions.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.