In 1955 he captained the First XI,[1] and also opened the batting for the schools team The Rest in the annual match against Southern Schools at Lord's.
He went up to Cambridge University, where he played irregularly over three years as an opening and middle-order batsman without achieving a Blue.
His best season was 1959, when he played 14 of the team's 19 matches and scored 500 runs at an average of 18.51.
[4] He captained the Rugby Meteors to victory in the Cricketer Cup in 1973, and toured the United States in 1992 and Canada in 1994 with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
He wrote How to Win at Cricket, or, the Skipper's Guide (published in 1988), which John Arlott described as "a perceptive and thought-provoking study of captaincy which is expressed most cogently and is, above all, full of good, sound common sense".