A Jamaican-born cricketer who made England his home and became a veteran of the Lancashire leagues before finally retiring at the age of 85 has died.
Cecil Wright played his last match for Uppermill in September 2019 in a career that saw him take more than 7,000 wickets over six decades.
Born in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, in 1933, the fast bowler played one first class game for Jamaica before moving to England in 1959, where he played semi-professionally in Lancashire alongside some of the greats of the game including Gary Sobers and Viv Richards.
His daughter Cecile Wright, a retired BBC network radio producer, said: "He was my hero really - it sounds like a cliche but he really was.