Frank Tyson - Later Career

Later Career

Frank Tyson met his wife Ursula Miles (born in 1936) in Melbourne on the 1954-55 tour, they married in a Melbourne church on 22 November 1957 with much publicity. They are still happily married and have three children, Philip (a non-Typhoon medium paced bowler), Sara and Anna, and eight grandchildren. He retired from first class cricket in 1960 and emigrated to Australia as a ten pound pom, as his hero Harold Larwood had done ten years earlier. "It had struck me while I was over there that it was a wonderful country to bring up a family, with the open spaces, the climate and the job opportunities". He became a schoolmaster at Carey Baptist Grammar School in Melbourne, teaching English, French and History, later becoming a housemaster and the head of languages. Tyson worked as a cricket coach in Melbourne and was the captain-coach of University of Melbourne Cricket Club. He also played for Todmorden Cricket Club in the Lancashire League in 1961, the Prime Ministers XI in 1963-64, International Cavaliers in 1968, Old England vs Old Australia in 1980 and Footscray Cricket Club. He was recruited as the Director of Coaching for the Victorian Cricket Association, taking them to two Sheffield Shield victories, and helped establish the Australian National Accreditation Scheme in 1974. From 1990 to 2008 he travelled to India to teach the coaches at the National Cricket Academy. and Mumbai Cricket Association. and has coached the Sri Lankan national cricket team for the World Cup. On the 1954-55 tour he had written columns for the Empire News and Manchester Evening News and when he retired he wrote for the London Observer, Daily Telegraph, Melbourne Age and contributed to The Cricketer International magazine. He was also a cricket commentator on Australian radio for 36 years and for Channel Nine from 1979 to 1986, forming a partnership with Tony Greig. Tyson is now fully retired, but goes to the gym three times a week, enjoys swimming and spends his time making oil paintings of cricketers and cricket grounds in his house on the Gold Coast, where he can "wake up every day in the sun".