R.I.P.

Alec Bedser - and I remember the 1953 test match against the Aussies at Trent Bridge. We were out on a school trip somewhere - can't remember where and obviously we must have been unsupervised, because I recall that we went into a pub, and were listening to the match on the radio and Bedser was getting among them, and from then on we drifted from pub to pub just to keep up with the game. He finished with figures of 7/44 (and he'd already taken seven wickets in the first innings as well) and put us into what could well have been a winning position had not rain intervened. On a "sticky wicket" he was virtually unplayable. We got well and truly pie-eyed that day!