Not Warne(d) of His Arrival, Not Warne(d) of His Departure

I am lost for words, but I will try and find thousand-odd ones for this article.
And I don’t think I will find those right words, certainly not enough to capture the lifetime of the cricketing connoisseur, or to describe the poetry in motion of this talismanic tweaker or touch on this Victorian’s vices, both on and off the field. There are other innings he played…