 He was an intense competitor and was known to brood, only half in jest, on lost matches decades after stumps had been drawn.In the early 1920s, Emmott made two winter tours to India with Abe Waddington and others to train the children of the Maharaja of Patiala, returning to England for the summer.Two of the Maharaja's sons, Yuvraj of Patiala and Raja Bhalindra Singh, both played first-class cricket.