Thursday, 10 February 2011

Cricket mourns Trevor Bailey

One of the cricketing heroes from my youth!

Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk
Trevor Bailey
Bailey batting against Australia in an Ashes Test match in 1953

Cricket is mourning former England Test player Trevor Bailey, who died in a fire at his home aged 87.

Bailey played 61 Tests for England during his playing career and later was a member of the BBC Test Match Special Commentary team for 26 years.

Posting on social network site Twitter, BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said: "Desperate news re. Trevor Bailey. Dogged batsman, aggressive bowler. Intelligent cricketer. Wonderfully concise pundit. Great sense of humour."

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