Leslie Hylton was a worrying case of rebel and class, but in a deeply fractured social sense. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to be executed for murder. The Jamaican right-arm fast seamer and aggressive lower-order batsman was a sensation in his first Test in January 1935 against RES Wyatt’s MCC in their winter tour of the West Indies.…
Leslie Hylton was a worrying case of rebel and class, but in a deeply fractured social sense. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to be executed for murder. The Jamaican right-arm fast seamer and aggressive lower-order batsman was a sensation in his first Test in January 1935 against RES Wyatt’s MCC in their winter tour of the West Indies. The story that follows was horrific from every angle. https://dropinpitch.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/tragic-story-of-leslie-hylton/
Leslie Hylton was a worrying case of rebel and class, but in a deeply fractured social sense. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to be executed for murder. The Jamaican right-arm fast seamer and aggressive lower-order batsman was a sensation in his first Test in January 1935 against RES Wyatt’s MCC in their winter tour of the West Indies. The story that follows was horrific from every angle. https://dropinpitch.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/tragic-story-of-leslie-hylton/