Geoffrey Howard (cricketer)

[1] As a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, he represented Middlesex in three first-class matches in 1930, whilst on annual leave from the bank for which he worked.

He played for the Private Banks XI from 1926 to 1936 and for the RAF during the Second World War, when he once made a century before lunch.

He was Secretary of Lancashire (1949 to 1965) and Surrey (1965 to 1975) and managed three Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) touring teams in Australia and the Indian sub-continent.

[3] The background included Baig telling Howard, "You must understand … that a lot of the crowd come to watch me umpire", and that same day reportedly giving three dubious LBWs against England, and turning down a certain one of their own.

It took a sincere apology by MCC president, Field Marshal Alexander of Tunis to his former military colleague and counterpart at the Pakistani board, Iskander Mirza, to prevent the tour being called off.