Career
He was selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1979. Also an acclaimed fieldsman, after years of scurrying accumulation for Middlesex, Mike Brearley"s accession to the England captaincy did his international cause no harm. His brief Test career, however, was ended prematurely by a bad blow to the head in the first match on the 1978-1979 tour of Australia.
He is one of the few international cricketers to make a century in his last One Day International, against New Zealand in 1978.
He represented Norfolk in 8 Minor County matches in 1961 and Middlesex in 62 2nd XI matches (1962-1990) and 520 First-class matches for the 1st XI (1964-1987), making 46 hundreds, with a best of 200. He also played for Auckland in New Zealand in 1984/85.
On his retirement as a player, he served as the 2nd XI coach of Middlesex (1988-1990) until his appointment as Master Control Console head coach in 1991 (in succession to Don Wilson) where he remained until his retirement in 2009. He was elected to serve for a two year term as the 22nd President of Middlesex County Cricket Club at its 149th Annual General Meeting at Lord"s in April 2013 succeeding the popular Geoff Norris.
