RIP thread

[sussexpob]

One of the great entertainers of the sport, and an underrated player in ODIs where he was a complete package in all three disciplines. If only he'd been born 10 years later, T20 cricket was invented for him.

Very sad loss. RIP Roy

[mikesiva]

One of the great entertainers of the sport, and an underrated player in ODIs where he was a complete package in all three disciplines. If only he'd been born 10 years later, T20 cricket was invented for him.

Very sad loss. RIP Roy

Seconded.

Very sad news.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Sorry to hear of death of Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode, aged 60. RIP.

[Durhamfootman]

Ray Liotta

67, I think

[Durhamfootman]

goodness

thick and fast

Alan White 72

Lester Piggott 86

Patricia Brake 79

RIP

[alfie]

Jim Parks...Oldest surviving England Test player departed at 90. Was a fine wicketkeeper/batsman back in the 60s , though he did not claim to be in the class of Evans with the gloves. Remember him playing very well with the bat on the 1965/66 Ashes tour. Came from a real cricketing family with a father who played one Test opening with Hutton pre-war and a son who went on to represent Hampshire. Jim (and Jim Snr) were Sussex stalwarts , though he actually finished his career at Somerset. Reckon he would have done well in the white ball game had it been around in those days...
RIP.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I think he and Evans were the Jones v Read of their time.

[sussexpob]

Jim Parks...Oldest surviving England Test player departed at 90. Was a fine wicketkeeper/batsman back in the 60s , though he did not claim to be in the class of Evans with the gloves. Remember him playing very well with the bat on the 1965/66 Ashes tour. Came from a real cricketing family with a father who played one Test opening with Hutton pre-war and a son who went on to represent Hampshire. Jim (and Jim Snr) were Sussex stalwarts , though he actually finished his career at Somerset. Reckon he would have done well in the white ball game had it been around in those days...
RIP.

Part of a very elite group of cricketers who can claim a test hundred with the bat, a wicket with the ball, and a stumping with the gloves....

The uncle (Harry) is very far up on the list of most games for Sussex too.... somewhere near 500.

[Durhamfootman]

Phil Bennett 73

the man who started off what is still, probably, the greatest try ever scored

[Arthur Crabtree]

Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91. Lauded French actor for nearly 70 years and a big favourite for me in the phenomenal Three Colours Red. Featured in many classics of European cinema, including some of my best loved films like The Big Silence, Z, A Man and a Woman and The Conformist. Many more.

[Durhamfootman]

Dame Deborah James, 40

lost the battle today. Hard leaving young children behind.

[Durhamfootman]

Bernard Cribbins 93

one of the great children's story tellers. Made a record 111 appearances on Jackanory.

[Gingerfinch]

I know him best as the spoooon salesman on Fawlty Towers.

rip Bernard

[Arthur Crabtree]

For me he's the station porter in The Railway Children.

Very distinctive voice.

[Durhamfootman]

Olivia Newton John 73

the cancer got her in the end