Sheffield Cricket Lovers' Society Year Book 2022

41 between Chris Dittmar and Jansher Khan, and then the nal match in the World Team Championship at the Royal Albert Hall in 1987. e retirement lasted only two years as in 1989 I became a World Referee Assessor - the only independent one in the world - until 1991. Squash gave me such wonderful experiences - even better than bowling out Neil Harvey! - and I still wonder at it all. I now keep up to date with what is happening in squash whilst persisting with golf which I started at 68. Guess how? Very badly…. HIGHLIGHTS ● Spending one month in Pakistan with Roshan Khan (British Open Champion and father of Jahangir). I was training referees but Roshan was kind enough to play me - he, at 47, beat me love, love and love! 2nds) at the other end. I took 5-15, mainly due to the magni cent David Fleetwood pulling o two leg side stumpings... whilst Roy didn’t get a wicket. At 24 I became a complete squash nut. Although only an average team player I managed Yorkshire Premier League level, and didn’t stop playing until a knee replacement in 2016. My refereeing began in 1972 when the British Open came to Abbeydale, eventually retiring from it in 1991. It provided me with extensive travel, primarily to Europe, along with Canada, Pakistan, Singapore and Malaysia. Finishing in 1987 was therefore bittersweet but I couldn’t have had a better swansong, rstly refereeing the 1987 World Championship Final MalcolmWillstrop (le ) and I played a comical exhibition at Abbeydale in for the crowd at the British Closed Championships in around 1982 With Rhamat Khan who coached Jahangir Khan and was the driving force for perhaps the greatest squash player ever