Well to the left in terms of politics he did not fit in well with the clear distinction between Amateurs and Professionals prevalent in the game when he started.

He seems to have a particular dislike for Jack White who was his first captain at Somerset and was an Amateur from a different era.

Trevor Arnott had dismissed Tom Young a number of times in the previous two season perhaps explaining why his name came to mind.

In Swindon his father was a publican but the family moved to Weston-super-Mare in 1921 where Andrews saw the visiting Australians, sold scorecards and worked the scoreboard.

Early in 1930 Andrews had applied, along with 140 other, for the post of Professional and Groundsman for East Coker near Yeovil.

These four matches brought Andrews 13 wickets at an average of over 30 and he returned to East Coker.

In 1933 he finished third in the county batting averages and set a club record by taking 104 wickets.

A number of times in 1933 and 1934 Somerset asked him to play but the Forfarshire committee refused.

Andrews was keen to return to first-class cricket and during his two seasons in Scotland he made sure that his improved performances were well reported in the local newspapers.

This ended a run of 127 consecutive games for the county, a Somerset record at the time.

This is in many ways impressive but from a negative point of view it does also indicate that he was never selected to play for England nor was he ever chosen for other important matches like Gentlemen v Players.

Andrews was a sufficiently competent batsmen by this stage to keep Gimblett company, knowing that only Horace Hazell was left to bat.

On Gimblett's departure Andrews took advantage of the dispirited Essex attack to score a rapid 71, his maiden half-century.

He finished the season taking 6–126 against Lancashire at Taunton, a match in which Jack Meyer scored a double century on the final day with Lancashire employing joke bowling to enable him to reach two hundred.

Having also scored over 700 runs at this point Andrews must surely have been in the reckoning for either the Players or even a Test place against the New Zealanders.

On the third morning Somerset had just avoided following-on and when Surrey batting again they were dismissed for 35 in 13.4 overs on a treacherous pitch.

With 10 championship wins, including 8 at home, against 9 defeats this was a rare season when Somerset had more victories than losses.

In five seasons from 1935 to 1939 Andrews had taken 582 wickets and scored nearly 4,000 runs for Somerset and proved himself a key member of the side.

Andrews was in the RAF for most of World War II as ground crew stationed near Blackpool.

Later in the war he played a number of matches for Glamorgan and the British Empire XI and eventually for Castleton Moor in the Central Lancashire League.

Andrews rejoined Somerset for 1946, the first post-war season of Championship cricket.

His season was mixed with 7–66 against Leicestershire at Melton Mowbray and 8–25 against Hampshire at Portsmouth but overall took just 68 wickets for Somerset.

Returning to Stourbridge again in 1950 he even played for Devon in the Minor Counties Championship in some mid-week matches.

During a spell with Glastonbury Town in the Western League he was offered a trial with Bristol City.