26 MAY 1950, Page 5

The Wisden lunch is old news now, but it was

too late for mention here last week. It attracted a galaxy of cricketers out of flannels

and elicited some extremely good speaking from Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, who comes of a cricketing family, Mr. Harold Wilson,

who I think does not, but has made cricket history (in Moscow) and Sir Pelham Warner, who is cricket personified. I liked Mr.

Wilson's observation that he would always have M. Molotov as wicket-keeper, because he lets nothing pass, but never as umpire, because he can only say No ; and Mr. Lyttelton's lament that Wisden has (for some reason) dropped the entry, " Wales, Frederick Prince