Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler

THERE was a time when Luke Fletcher’s preparation for a cricket match consisted of two paracetamols plus a double sausage and egg McMuffin.
In those days, he combined Notts Premier League cricket for Papplewick and Linby with a social game on a Sunday. Growing up, football had been his main sport. He turned out for Nottingham City Boys at Wembley and scored a long-range volley in a schools’ final at Old Trafford.
It was only the weight of League performances that prompted Phillip de Freitas, a club-mate who was also on the coaching staff at Trent Bridge, to...