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RIP Dickie Bird


Gutted. Absolutely gent of a character. He used to visit where my Aunty used to work and apparently he was the most polite, and generous person with his time. Took the time to listen to her stories about how 2 of her nephews were cricket mad. He even signed 2 of his auto biographies for us with personal messages. Such a nice bloke.
 
I always loved his story about his famous white cap getting nicked at the Oval when jubilant West Indies supporters ran on to pitch at the end of their victory in a Test. A couple of years later he was traveling through London by bus when he noticed the conductor - a big West Indian guy - was wearing a white flat cap rather than the official London Transport uniform flat cap.

Dickie admired the cap and the conductor proudly told him that it used to be Dickie Bird's but he had pinched it from the umpire's head at the end of a Test a couple of years before and that he had worn it with pride each day at work ever since .

I don't think that Dickie asked for it back.

RIP Dickie
A great Umpire and by all accounts not a bad county cricketer in his day.
 
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