Trevor Bailey dies at age of 87

The former England allrounder, Trevor Bailey, provides died in a fireplace at his retirement home in Essex. He was eighty seven.

According to BBC Kent, his body was found in the kitchen of a smoke-logged flat in Crowstone Road, Westcliff right after 0600 GMT. His wife Greta was rescued from the blaze.

"Crews did an admirable job getting into the home quickly and searching from the smoke to find the girl," said Essex fire program divisional officer Bob Wahl. "She was in bed with the door closed and so that's most likely what saved her. Firefighters carried her from the property and she remained in the care with the ambulance service.

"Her partner had gone to your kitchen, which is where crews found him. Unfortunately there was nothing we could carry out. We will now need to wait for the fire investigation results to see how the fire started. The thoughts are with the household at this difficult moment."

Bailey, who played 61 times for England in the ten-year career between 1949 and 1959, is better remembered for his defiant partnership with Willie Watson at Lord's inside 1953, in which he or she batted for four-and-a-half hours to secure a draw which proved pivotal in England's reclaiming of the particular Ashes after a 19-year hiatus.

Any precocious schoolboy cricketer with Dulwich, he played an unofficial Test for Great britain at Lord's in 1944 and after the spell in national program, became a regular in the Essex side and earned Blues in 1947 and also 1948 at Cambridge. Throughout his Test career, Britain were the leading aspect in the world, and he was at the coronary heart of the team.

With Headingley in 1953 he bowled negative leg concept to put the skids on Australia's drive for victory. That winter he took 7 regarding 34 against a effective West Indies. He bandy out after England's Ashes tour in 1958-59, when he made first-class cricket's slowest half-century, in 357 minutes at Queensland, one of 14 complements in which he opened.

After retirement, Bailey wrote books and for magazines, and became a well-known member of the Test Match Special team on the actual BBC. "Desperate news," published his former TMS colleague, Jonathan Agnew, on Facebook. "Dogged batsman, aggressive bowler. Intelligent cricketer. Wonderfully concise pundit. Great sense of humour."