Bunty Longrigg

What with his success for Somerset in August, his clever fielding near the wicket, and a capacity to bowl slows of which he might have made more use, Longrigg will be watched very carefully at Cambridge.

[4][5] After his poor start in 1926, it took Longrigg a while in 1927 to break into the Cambridge side and with a top score of only 74 and a batting average of 27, he possibly benefited from the illness of Duleepsinhji and injury to Maurice Turnbull in winning a blue.

In the University Match, though, he justified his place with a second innings 57 that gave Cambridge the initiative and led to their victory over Oxford.

[13] Two years later, there was 124 against Surrey at Bath, made this time out of a total of 215 and a second century in the same 1933 season against Middlesex at Weston-super-Mare when he shared a second wicket partnership of 184 with Box Case.

The move, Wisden reported in 1939, was a success: Somerset won 10 Championship matches for the first time ever and rose six places up the table to finish seventh.

It wrote: "Better team-work played an important part in Somerset's achievements, and in this connection they owed much to E. F. Longrigg... if he did not altogether fulfil expectations as a batsman, he certainly left no doubts concerning his qualifications for leadership.

After the Second World War, Longrigg returned for one final season as Somerset captain and led the side to its best placing in the Championship since 1892.

The team finished fourth with a record 12 victories, and Wisden again cited teamwork as an ingredient in the side's success.

Longrigg was an important figure in the administration of Somerset cricket for much of the rest of his life, acting as both county chairman and president.

He was involved in some of the fractiousness that surrounded the departure of the professional Harold Stephenson as captain and his replacement by the unpaid Colin Atkinson, and was forced to resign as chairman after a vote of no confidence at a special meeting amid reports of player rebellion.