DEREK PRINGLE
@derekpringle
Everyone will have their favourite overseas pro in county cricket – they’ve been decorating our summer game for 50 years now.
It may not even have been one who played for your team. My own was Ken McEwan, with whom I played at Essex, but Malcolm Marshall would have run him close with his unstinting service for Hampshire.
Both men were beloved by team and supporters alike, mostly because they played so long for their respective counties that they became part of the family – and county teams in their era, the 1970s and 80s, were just like bi...