The Hereford Times

Cricketer’s sudden death

2:37pm Friday 11th April 2008

GOODRICH Cricket Club are planning to commemorate the life of their leading bowler who died tragically earlier this year.

Left-arm spinner Andy Russell won the Marches League Division 1 bowling award last season and scooped the Herefordshire club’s top bowling honour.

He died in January after being taken ill at the home he shared with his mother, Pat, at The Doward.

It is thought that Russell, who was a vegetarian, suffered a fatal reaction to a food he ate.

Goodrich batsman Roger Lord said: “Andy chose to play for Goodrich because of the wonderful views from around the ground.

“He was the sort of bowler you don’t often come across in local cricket.” Russell had been a member at Goodrich for three years. He moved to Herefordshire from Essex four years ago.

He was a former first-team captain and groundsman at Buckhurst Hill Cricket Club.

Lord added: “Andy was a tremendous spinner of the ball who could turn it both ways. He will be sorely missed.” Goodrich hope to choose a fitting manner in which to remember the player.