This included an unbroken sequence of 423 consecutive County Championship matches between 1954 and 1969, which is still the record number.
[4] He played in 55 List A one-day matches, and was a member of the Sussex side which won the Gillette Cup in 1963 and 1964 (the first two years of the competition).
He won the Man of the Match award in a quarter-final of the Gillette Cup in 1968, scoring 100 in a seven-run victory for Sussex over Northamptonshire.
He stands equal third with Les Berry in the list of players with most first-class runs not to have played a Test.
[6] After leaving Sussex he played for Suffolk for two seasons, ran an equipment shop, then coached at Christ's Hospital.