Former Telegraph & Argus cricket reporter Martin Searby has died aged 72.
During a 50-year career, he covered Yorkshire matches in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s and was a popular figure on county grounds across the country.
Born in Pontefract, Searby moved to London as a boy, where he was educated at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School.
His career in sports journalism spanned over half a century and he became part of the Yorkshire cricket scene when he moved to Scarborough in the 1970s.
He also became cricket correspondent for Radio Leeds and went on to write about the team’s triumphs and losses for the Sheffield Star, as well as the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail.
In 1985, he received the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society Cricket Writer of the Year Award, and more recently he collaborated with Geoff Boycott on his book The Best XI and also edited his website.
Martin was a loyal member of the Cricket Writers’ Club and always held in particular affection his Yorkshire cricket colleagues.
Martin died from bladder cancer, leaving behind his long-term partner Hilary.
His funeral took place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium in Dewsbury.
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