Cricket:Former England fast bowler and Ashes-winner Graham Dilley has died at the age of 52 after a short illness, the England and Wales Cricket Board have confirmed.
Dilley, who played in 41 Tests and took 138 wickets, will also be remembered forever for the part his tail-end batting played in the Ian Botham-led heroics which turned round England’s fortunes against Australia in the famous Ashes Test at Headingley in 1981.
In a 10-year international career, Dilley — initially of Kent and then Worcestershire — helped England win the urn in that astounding 1981 series, and regain it Down Under in 1986-87.