Another name from my past has appeared in the obituary columns.

John Edrich was a batsman for Surrey and England at a time when I was fairly interested in cricket. Indeed his 310 not out against New Zealand was the eighth highest Test score by an individual in an innings up to that point and is still the fifth highest by an England player. In all he played in 77 Tests (plus 7 One Day Internationals) scoring 5138 runs (plus 223 in ODIs) and a batting average of 43.45 (37.16.) He was also instrumental in Surrey winning the County Championship in 1971, their first for 13 years. Overall in first class cricket he scored 39,790 runs (with 103 hundreds) and averaged 45.47. He also held 310 catches.

John Hugh Edrich: 21/6/1937 – 23/12/2020. So it goes.