After he finished his National Service, his family moved to Sussex, where he joined the county team, playing his first match in 1952.
[2] A medium-fast right-arm swing and seam bowler of accuracy and consistency, and a lower-order batsman, he soon became a regular member of the team.
[3] He was picked for the 1964–65 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour to South Africa, which was led by the Warwickshire captain, M. J. K. Smith.
He played in all five Tests on the tour, and was used largely as a stock bowler, with the spinners Fred Titmus and David Allen taking most wickets.
A spate of injuries on the tour led to a call-up for Ken Palmer, who was coaching locally, and Geoffrey Boycott was also used as a bowler.