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Key facts

Name: William Morris

Born: 19 October 1938

Education: Mizpah School, Manchester, Jamaica; Handsworth Technology Collegel

Career: Former General Secretary, Transport and General Workers Union

Cricket career: School in Jamaica; Hardy Spicer Works team in Birmingham

Earliest cricketing memory

Skipping lessons to play cricket when I was 11 - I was sure I was going to open the batting for the West Indies! In 1952 I played in a school match celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II and in 1954, the year I came to England, I saw George Headley play in a charity game.

Cricketing highlights / lowlights

Highlights: My membership of the ECB board has taken me from spectator to administrator..

Lowlights: Approaching my 64th birthday, I was dropped from the annual match between the General Council of TUC and an Industrial Correspondents XI to make way for a younger man.

Cricketers admired

The three Ws - Weekes, Worrell and Walcott.

What cricket has helped me to achieve

Developing a sense of fair play; learning the importance of being part of a team; meeting inspirational people.

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