WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY Cricket Club are paying tribute to one of their most inspirational former players...
Jamaican-born Derief was the first black player to play County Championship cricket for Warwickshire when he joined the Midlands outfit in 1948 following his World War II service in the British Army
He enjoyed success with bat and ball in 1949 – hitting 121 not out during one stand with Edgbaston legend Tom Dollery – but it was as a coach that he really made his mark with the club. Simms, now the club’s Indoor Centre Manager, said: “Many hundreds of players would have benefited from Derief’s coaching.
“There was one thing I’d always remember, he’d put some skittles down at cover, extra cover and he’d come up and bowl, right on the spot and you’d have to knock the skittles over. He would spend hours bowling at you until you got it right.
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