内容摘要："We want young people to start developing an interest in and building all the relevant skills during their basic schooling," she says.

"We want young people to start developing an interest in and building all the relevant skills during their basic schooling," she says.

"They would walk off and I would say, 'who's that?' and he would go, 'I've no idea'."I think so many people knew him because they had watched him play cricket."

She also described how they were out together a couple of months before his death when a bus driver recognised him and told her watching her father play cricket had given him "hours of pleasure".Wright's career also saw him play for Crompton, Colne, Astley Bridge, and Walsden.Last year he officially

entitled West Indians in the Lancashire Leagues at Old Trafford, home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.Former Lancashire captain John Abrahams, whose father Cec Abrahams played for Milnrow, said: "He was a friend of my dad. He was true gentleman.

"He was genuinely quick but also very innovative - he had one delivery which batters only saw very late."

Wright's only game for Jamaica was not a success as he bowled against a Barbados team that included cricket greats Wes Hall, Collie Smith and Seymour Nurse without taking a wicket."I knew something wasn't quite right," Ms Thomas said.

"My skin seemed a lot worse than anyone I knew, my back pain was crazy. It didn't seem quite normal to me."Three weeks out of every month I was going through that."

Her doctor put her on the Pill to help manage the pain but it gave her migraines, so she came off it in 2018.The pain then grew worse, and her doctor said it must be caused by "anxiety or over-exercise".