Career
He was a left-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. He also acted as assistant coach of Glamorgan. Born in Cantley, Norfolk, he died at Padstow in Cornwall, aged 86.
He was cricket coach at Street Edward"s School, Oxford.
Edrich played 181 first-class matches for Kent and Glamorgan between 1947 and 1956, scoring 5,529 runs. He later played for Norfolk, Oxfordshire and the Minor Counties between 1957 and 1970.
His most prolific season was 1951, in which he passed 1,000 runs for the only time in his career, finishing with 1,267, including two hundreds and seven fifties. His highest score in first-class cricket was 193 not out, made in 1949 against Sussex.
This score, however – 51% of the total of 379 – was made in a losing cause.