[5] Before his discharge from the services, Earle played in a non-first-class match for the Royal Air Force against the Army, opening the bowling and top-scoring in a poor RAF first innings.
[7] In 1922, Earle played in one match for Somerset, and from 1923 onwards he appeared fairly regularly for the county until the end of the 1929 season.
Wisden, normally staid in its prose, reported that Earle was "amazing": he made 76 in "just over half an hour" to the close of play and then, when Somerset batted on into the second day, went on himself to finish with 111.
[3][10] Wisden referred to his "exceptional driving" and, 40 years later, wrote that "while by no means a stylist, (he) used his considerable physique to hit the ball tremendously hard".
[13][14] At the end of the 1924 season, he was a member of another amateur touring team, the Incogniti, who played several non-first-class matches in North American cricketing strongholds around New York City and Philadelphia.
The Imperial Cricket Conference in London in 1926 had decided to encourage India, New Zealand and the West Indies to develop their local cricket infrastructures with a view to widening the number of Test cricket-playing countries, which had until then been restricted to England, Australia and South Africa and the MCC tour was part of this encouragement.
[3][10] The batting included an innings of 130, the highest score of his first-class career and his second century, in the match against the Hindus at the Bombay Gymkhana ground in Mumbai.
[16] The innings included 26 runs from five consecutive balls, and he hit eight sixes and 11 fours; he put on 154 in 65 minutes with Tate.
[18] Three years later, Earle was a member of a similar MCC tour in 1929–30, this time to New Zealand, with matches played on the journey in both Sri Lanka and Australia.
As a squadron leader of the Auxiliary Air Force, he transferred from the Balloon Branch to administrative and special duties in 1941.