His three brothers, Eric, Geoff and Bill, and his cousin, John, all played first-class cricket.
[1] After making his debut against Lancashire in May 1947, he went on to play 181 first-class matches for Kent and Glamorgan between 1947 and 1956, scoring 5,529 runs.
[3] His innings against Sussex set a new Kent record partnership of 161 for the ninth wicket, made with Fred Ridgway at Tunbridge Wells.
[4] He was awarded his county cap by Kent in 1949[5] and his most prolific season was 1951 in which he passed 1,000 runs for the only time in his career, finishing with 1,267, including two centuries, and took 49 wickets.
[1][5] He made one appearance for the Minor Counties representative team against the touring Pakistanis in 1967, his final first-class match.