So long
Bill Frindall, otherwise known as ‘Bearders’ or ‘The Bearded Wonder’, the scorer for BBC’s Test Match Special since before I was born, has died.
Not only was he an integral part of TMS — by far the best radio sports commentary of any sort, for my money — but he was fantastically accomplished at the arcane business of scoring cricket matches (and yet managed at the same time to appreciate the game he was scoring, a division of concentration which has always eluded me). He also seemed to be a very decent bloke.