Tony Pigott: "I was meant to get married that weekend, but I'd have run through a brick wall to play for England"

HUW TURBERVILL: Pigott postponed his wedding to answer England's SOS call in New Zealand in 1983/84; the 66-year-old, a seamer for Sussex and Surrey, now lives in Wadhurst and pleasingly is all clear after a battle with oesophageal cancer

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