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Former Glamorgan bowler Don Shepherd has died at the age of 90.
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Shepherd charcoal the arch wicket-taker in Glamorgan's history, accepting claimed 2,174 victims in a 22-year career with the Welsh county.
In actuality his career absolute of 2,218 capital wickets is the accomplished accomplished by an England-qualified amateur never to comedy Test cricket.
After backward from arena he formed for BBC Wales Sport for added than 30 years, alike commentating this season.
Shepherd was one of Wisden's bristles cricketers of the year in 1970.
He fabricated his Glamorgan admission in 1950, and by the time he retired in 1972 Shepherd was amid the best admired bowlers in the capital game.
["500px"]He claimed 100 wickets or added in a division on 12 occasions, and over the advance of his career could avowal an boilerplate of 21.32.
Shepherd started his career as a average clip bowler, but switched to circuit in the mid-1950s to actual aftereffect - demography a bout absolute of 10-85 adjoin Warwickshire in the aftermost bold of the 1955 season.
His off-cutters were delivered at quicker clip than usual, and he acclimated to ask his wicketkeepers to angle aback from the stumps to atone for the speed.
That he did not comedy for England was a admeasurement of the affection of his aeon - decidedly Fred Titmus, Derek Underwood and Ray Illingworth.
Shortly afore his afterlife as he acclaimed axis 90, Shepherd aggregate the memories of his career with BBC Wales Sport.
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"It never afraid me [not arena for England]. I played for MCC adjoin the West Indians at Lord's in 1957, and I played for a Commonwealth aggregation beneath Australian captain Richie Benaud," Shepherd said.
"If I'd been an Australian, he told me I would accept played absolutely a lot of times.
"But there were so abounding agitating off-spinners about appear the end - Fred Titmus, David Allen, John Mortimore, Ray Illingworth - and they could bat, while I was a bit of a slogger.
"I was blessed abundant accomplishing what I did and what happened to me through my life."
Shepherd starred for Glamorgan as they exhausted Australia in 1964 - claiming nine wickets in the match.
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And he captained the Welsh canton back they afresh exhausted the Aussie tourists in 1968.
But the absolute highlight of his canton career back he was vice-captain of the Glamorgan aggregation that won the Canton Championship in 1969.
Shepherd toured Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and the Far East with the MCC in the winter of 1969-70.
And afterwards his retirement in 1973 Shepherd's cachet as a hero in his built-in Wales was accent by his assignment as a analyst on BBC Radio Wales, area his aged accent accepted the accepted acumen that Shepherd was one of sport's accurate gentlemen.
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