Being a fast bowler between the wars was hard work, which is no doubt at least part of the reason why Ken Farnes chose to play as an amateur
Back in 1991 West Country journalist Richard Walsh published a poem, written by John Arlott, about a famous century that Somerset opener Harold Gimblett scored on debut in 1935. There were 135 copies of the poem, 110 of them in card covers, numbered and signed by Arlott (who was to pass away later that year). […]