Cyril Perkins celebrates a century of birthdays

The world's oldest surviving first-class cricketer, Cyril Perkins, is still smiling at the age of 100, says Simon Briggs, writing in the Daily Telegraph.

Perkins was a left-arm spinner, and a handy one at that. “I remember watching him bowl,” says my Telegraph colleague Simon Parry-Crooke, who was an aspiring leftie in the Seventies, “and he had this incredible control: he could just drop the ball on a handkerchief.”