one shepherd takes away another

How many non-playing gentlemen, with their endearing superstitions, on the field can make broadcast producers/cameramen aim their cameras at you?

He, for me, was one of the few blokes who added color, and a dash of romance to cricket. He was in the league of Dickie Bird, Srinivasa Venkataraghavan, Merv Hughes, Curtley Ambrose, Jonty Rhodes when it came to combining excellence with a persona to match; take away any of these, or of their ilk, cricket would just remain an exercise in statistics, records, numbers, and boring , staid gentlemanliness.

For all he has done in making watching cricket a pleasurable exercise with his authority, and own quirks, the most noticeable being the famous "double jig" at every Nelson in cricket, he deserves rest now.




........................................................Rest In Peace, David Shepherd