From 1895 until 1912 he played for Leicestershire, and represented England in three matches of the 1903-04 Ashes series against Australia.
His most important contribution to the game (but one that is often omitted from accounts of his life) was a book, The Complete Cricketer, published in 1906. Sir Derek Birley, in his A Social History of English Cricket, described it as "a masterpiece of its kind, stuffed full of learned observations in weighty prose".