Richard Edwards remembers an England and Middlesex opener whose life was cut short 30 years ago after a series of collapses that had dogged his career
St Vincent sits just over the water from St Lucia, the scene of England’s third Test triumph earlier this week.
It was there, in this little corner of paradise, that a former England opener first picked up a bat and felt the thrill of leather on willow.
He would eventually move to High Wycombe at the age of 12 before returning to the Caribbean to enjoy his finest moment as a cricketer during an otherwise dismal tour of the West Indies i...