only ten first-class games in 1879 despite being the official captain of Surrey, Lucas returned to form under severely difficult conditions due to the abominable weather and was selected for the first Test team in England the following year, where he made 55, his only fifty in five Tests. At the end of 1882 Lucas moved away from Surrey and played for Middlesex under a birth qualification from 1883, when he remained near the top of the first-class batting averages. He achieved the rare feat of carrying his bat through an innings for the Gentlemen at the Oval, and played an innings of 72 at Lord's. Lucas played in the first two Tests of the 1884 season without doing anything worthy of his reputation apart from a dour 15 not out on a sticky wicket in the first match. Owing to his work for the London Stock Exchange, nothing more was seen of Lucas in first-class cricket until 1887, when despite an exceptional summer he was again disappointing. In 1889, coming to the aid of his good friend C.E. Green, Lucas began to play for Essex, in which he had been residing since 1883, and captaining the side until 1894. However, he played only two first-class matches from 1890 to 1893 and when Essex joined the County Championship in 1895, his profession restricted Lucas to a few games in 1895 and 1896. He then played fairly regularly for Essex until 1901, and if not quite the outstanding batsman of twenty years beforehand, Lucas still was a model of soundness and style. His work as a banker again began to severely restrict his cricket from 1902, but whenever he could play Lucas remained valuable up to his last match at the age of fifty. Although known to his chums as “Bunny”, he is referred to in all cricket sources, including contemporary reports, either by his surname or as “A. P. Lucas”. To the players under his leadership, he was simply “The Boss”. He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Fryerning, Essex. References External links 1857 births 1923 deaths Burials in Essex Cambridge University cricketers England Test cricketers English cricketers Essex cricketers Essex cricket captains Middlesex cricketers Surrey cricketers Surrey cricket captains I Zingari cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen cricketers North v South cricketers People educated at Uppingham School Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Gentlemen of the South cricketers