I think the weather was okay for the Wimbledon fortnight that year and that was when the festival at Hastings was. No, I think Deadly didn't need any help that day.
I'm going to use Derek's passing to shamelessly promote the Primary Club, a cricketers charity that provides support to visually impaired sports folk. Derek was a patron and huge supporter of the cause..
https://www.primaryclub.org/
Membership is open to anyone who has been out first ball at...
Utterly gutted and quite shocked to hear this.
He did as much away from cricket as he did in cricket. He was still playing when I first started listening on TMS, and still for Kent for a few years after that.
The sort of autograph the starry eyed cricket youngster would cherish and a...