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Post by hawke on Jan 22, 2024 15:25:45 GMT
Doug Padgett died last Saturday aged 89. Us older hands will recall him as a very reliable, technically correct number 3 in the sides of the sixties. He played in 7 Championship winning and 2 Gillette Cup winning sides. The first title was the famous one in 1959 when he and Bryan Stott began the successful run chase at Hove with a big opening partnership. He was agile in the covers too I believe. Then he became 2nd X1 captain and coach. A great servant.
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Post by newby on Jan 22, 2024 16:38:44 GMT
Sad news, obituary piece by David Warner on the club website.
I used to follow the cricket mainly from my dad's Daily Herald and the Yorkshire Evening News in the late 50's early 60's, and it seemed to my young mind that Doug Padgett followed either Bryan Stott or Brian Bolus as surely as night followed day.
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Post by davemorton on Jan 22, 2024 19:20:35 GMT
I remember him very fondly. A lovely batsman to watch, graceful and reliable. Played for Yorkshire incredibly young, and therefore for a long time. I think he played in a Test or two, against S Africa in 1955, perhaps?
Yes, the partnership with Bryan Stott at Hove. The older Padgett always looked deeply wind and sunburnt, as did a lot of pros in those days. He was a great fieldsman at cover point, with the equally athletic Ken Taylor on the other side of the wicket.
That team, with those two, and also Close, Illingworth and Sharpe in their prime, with Binks behind the stumps, Trueman and Vic Wilson close-catching...they would have fielded the pants off any modern team. Perhaps why they kept on winning!
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jan 23, 2024 10:28:51 GMT
My Dad told me about Padgett as he retired before I really started to watch. My Dad loved good fielders, as he also drooled over Colin Bland and then after Padgett we used to enjoy watching Colin Johnson (if selected due to England absentees) and a young Kevin Sharp both patrol the covers as Padgett used to do.
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Post by donnylad on Jan 24, 2024 15:44:45 GMT
....Padgett, Stott, Taylor Bolus ... and also Close, Illingworth and Sharpe in their prime, with Binks behind the stumps, Trueman and Vic Wilson close-catching .....
That was most of the team I first started following and their names will stick with me for ever.
Doug Padgett always looked so neatly and tidily turned out (they all did ... maybe FS excepted on occasion) and yet casually good at what he did.
Are they all passed away now?
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Post by davemorton on Jan 24, 2024 16:58:42 GMT
I'm not sure Brian Bolus ever got his Yorkshire cap. I saw him play for England, at The Oval in 1963, but by then he had moved to Notts and reinvented himself as a stroke player. That game, he hit Wes Hall back over his head, off the back foot, first over of the match. From memory, I think Mickey Stewart was his opening partner. I know Brain Close took the gloves during the game, Kanhai batted like a genius, Trueman broke down with an ankle injury - which was very rare for him - and Windies won by 8 wickets in his absence.
I won a bet with a Surrey supporter, that Fred would score more runs than Tony Lock, and beer was 2s/6d a pint, which was so outrageous I didn't buy any. And it was only Worthington E or Watney's Red Barrel, garbage like that. I was playing my club cricket for Marston's Brewery at the time, and was used to better.
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Post by newby on Jan 24, 2024 17:05:54 GMT
As far as I know Ken Taylor and Bryan Stott are still around and hopefully enjoying their retirement.
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Post by karma on Jan 24, 2024 19:08:52 GMT
I used to speak to Bryan Stott, he was very friendly, had a hardware store / cafe in Horsforth , Town Street,W. Yorks. Our daughter used to love going in for cake. It closed maybe 12 years ago and the site developed.
I assumed he'd finally retired, hope he's keeping fine.
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Post by davemorton on Jan 24, 2024 19:26:03 GMT
Jimmy Binks is still alive, and living in Canada, did someone tell me? Jack Birkenshaw, who was in the XI which won at Hove, is still alive. Brian Bolus died in 2020.
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Post by hawke on Jan 24, 2024 20:31:07 GMT
Jimmy Binks worked and lived in California didn’t he. He may have moved Canada, I don’t know.
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Post by davemorton on Jan 24, 2024 22:18:01 GMT
I have a print of Ken Taylor's action painting of FST + one of Brian Close. Done from photographs, naturally enough, but nicer than a plain photo. I also have one of Sir Len playing a square-cut, again a famous photo. The signature on the paining print is Peter Mennim.
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Post by newby on Jan 29, 2024 17:38:04 GMT
Funeral of Doug Padgett is scheduled to take place at All Saints Church in Bingley at 2 pm on Monday the 19th of February.
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