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• ‟ I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the Caribbean, Leeds, Scarborough or London there's always someone who's got a story about him.

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• ‟ When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.

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• ‟ But having gone through two bouts of breast cancer and all the operations and treatments it's fair to say mum's a special human being - especially as she had to deal with the tragedy and heartache that went with Dad's death.

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• ‟ We're a special family and it's just that Dad's life was taken away from us far too early. Everywhere you go around the world he had an effect on people - in the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa or England. I've never heard a bad word said about him.

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• ‟ I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.

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• ‟ You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

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• ‟ When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.

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• ‟ I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his own. But my late boyhood, my early teens and my adolescence were full of net sessions and practice drills he never witnessed, ups and downs he never knew about and matches he never saw.

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• ‟ The place closest to my dad's heart, unequivocally his favourite, was Scarborough. To him it was the epitome of the English coast, postcard perfect.

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• ‟ My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I'm thinking about him, if only for a minute or two.

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• ‟ I've learnt - and this pleases me - that my dad's cricketing life and my own will always be intertwined, even though I will finish far behind the number of appearances he made for Yorkshire and also his length of service at Headingley.

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• ‟ I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.

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• ‟ I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

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• ‟ My dad passed on his cricketing talent. My mum has enabled me to use it.

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• ‟ My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.

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• ‟ No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.

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• ‟ With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a decade away for me.

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• ‟ My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

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