A talented cricketer and an even better friend: remembering Alan Morton

“Another season, brother! I wonder what it’ll bring us.” For well over twenty years those words or something like them, spoken in a rich Birmingham accent, used to welcome me on some sunlit April morning, and they always brought joy to my heart. The greeting was spoken by a burly, slightly shambolic figure, whose love of cricket was the equal of my own and yet who also knew that there were more important things to concern us.