As promised a few photo's from the Barbados gig, and where better to start than with the top man. The four of us featured in the photo, have one thing in common which I suspect nobody else at the presentation party had. All four of us were at Lord's cricket ground in the Summer of 1963. Two of us were trying to knock Ted Dexter's head off, one was egging them on from silly mid-on, and the other one was sat in the stand with his Dad watching his first ever live test match.
Three of them are now knighted and it was a real privilege that they sat to allow me to have this photo shoot. Sir Wes Hall can't move around too much these days so the pose was for his benefit really. Sir Charlie Griffiths and Sir Gary Sobers are much more sprightly and have a few yarns to spin. The three of them remind me of my chums in the S Club and how we meet up a few times each year and talk the same rubbish we have talked about for nigh on 50 years.
Gordon Greenidge was playing in my handicap group and was good enough to have his photo taken, the shadows were a bit tricky though. That said Sandy Lane was in top shape again this year, it was just a pity not to do it justice.
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