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Trevor Bailey RIP: A Life In Photos

by | 11th, February 2011

RIP Trevor Bailey. At 87 years, the cricketing great died in a fire at his Essex home. He liked to keep his commentaries brief. Christopher Martin-Jenkins called him “the greatest distiller since Johnny Walker” – “Sunny say; no clouds to worry about; good pitch“.

Enjoy the gallery – the captions are as vital as the nostalgia:

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England team group: (back row, l-r) Don Kenyon, Tony Lock, Johnny Wardle,Tom Graveney, Brian Statham; (front row, l-r) Willie Watson, Godfrey Evans, Freddie Brown, Len Hutton, Denis Compton, Alec Bedser, Trevor Bailey



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