No equal to Trueman

Today is the funeral of Fred Trueman, who died on Saturday, and the tributes continue to flood in. The BBC are putting together a programme full of archive footage and the country's cricket writers reflect on his career. In The Daily Telegraph, Derek Pringle gives his personal memories of first listening to Trueman on the radio and a further insight into this extraordinary character.

It would be another two decades before I saw film of Fred bowling in a Test match. The footage was from the 1963 series against the West Indies, considered by many to be the apogee of Fred's career. Yet what struck me, and still does, is not just the marvellous side-on bowling action but the run up, which is probably best described as a bounding skip, something not coached these days.