[1] His highest score of 34 not out came when playing for Free Foresters in the match against Oxford University in 1959, his first-class debut.
[4] His solitary first-team county appearance occurred in a high-scoring draw against Warwickshire at The Oval in July 1960, failing to capture a wicket as Norman Horner and Khalid Ibadulla compiled an unbroken first-wicket partnership of 377.
When he was a schoolboy cricketer at Charterhouse, where he played in the first XI from 1954 to 1957, Wisden gave his height as 6 feet 10 1/2 inches.
[5] His father was the England Test player Maurice Allom.
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