Retirement
He retired as a cricket commentator at the end of the 1980 season, with the Centenary Match against the Australians at Lords providing his swan song at TMS. "The decision was freely taken; and although it was not easy to go, was a better choice than, one day, being told to go.". Leaving New Alresford in 1981, after 20 years, he moved to The Vines on Alderney in the Channel Islands. His health was fragile and he suffered with chronic bronchitis.
He died in his sleep in the early morning on Saturday, 14 December 1991 and was buried in the island cemetery. Engraved on his headstone were two lines from one of his own poems (originally dedicated to Andrew Young): "So clear you see those timeless things, That, like a bird, the vision sings".
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