url
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/5481
dcterms:creator
	Scovel, Brian
dcterms:created
	2006
dcterms:description
	A book about a former student of Salts High School around 1933 to 1937 by by Brian Scovel. Laker won a scholorship to Salts School, his mother was a teacher. He was a regular player on the school cricket team and played for Saltaire Cricket Club, based in Roberts Park, for three seasons in the late 1930s. He left school in 1939 and in 1941 joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and was posted in Egypt.  While there he set up a cricket team. Once he returned from the war, he was unable to join the Yorkshire team so played for Surrey and represented England.  At Old Trafford in 1956 during the Ashes Test match with Australia he famously took 19 wickets out of 20 (Tony Lock who played for Surry took the other) enabling England to win the Ashes. It is known as the Laker Test match, and is still a record for most wickets taken by one bowler in a first cass cricket match.
dcterms:format
	printed
dcterms:identifier
	F1a-370
dcterms:publisher
	Tempus Publishing
dcterms:references
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10985 Saltaire Cricket Club
dcterms:relation
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/8016 Roberts Park, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
dcterms:rights
	Only viewable in the Saltaire Collection
dcterms:rightsHolder
	Copyright Brian Scovel
dcterms:subject
	Education
	Sport
dcterms:title
	Jim Laker 19-90
dcterms:type
	book

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