Complex sentence: Knighted in 1953, the first professional cricketer to be so honoured, he spent his later years nursing his wife and died aged 81, a few months after her in 1963.
Split into simpler sentences: Knighted in 1953, the first professional cricketer to be so honoured, he spent his later years nursing his wife. He died, aged 81, a few months after her in 1963.