When Tommo brought a tear to Bumble's eye - Telegraph When Tommo brought a tear to Bumble's eye Top bloke all round: David Lloyd By Robert Philip In pics: England squad | Australia squad As a player, he was described by John Arlott as being 'one of the bravest and finest close fieldsmen in the world and a brilliant stroke-maker', averaging 42.46 in his brief international career of nine Tests. As a coach, his outspokenness caused much spluttering and spilled gin within the confines of Lord's but he was instrumental in the introduction of central contracts which have transformed England from whipping boys into Ashes winners. As a broadcaster, he has just been voted 'Most Popular Cricket Commentator of the Year' by the readers of Wisden magazine. Over the coming months he will bring his own unique brand of pithy northern humour to the Sky Sports coverage of the Ashes series. But you can best judge a man by the loyalty and affection he inspires in his friends. Mention his name to Ian Botham, Bob Willis, Mike Atherton or just about anyone in the world of cricket from Australia to Antigua and the reaction will be the same. "Bumble?

Top bloke…" Having spent a few hours in David Lloyd's company (the nickname, incidentally, came from his resemblance to one of Michael Bentine's friendly little aliens in his children's TV series The Bumblies) I can think of no more apposite portrait; top bloke, indeed. Lloyd's fascination with the Ashes dates back to 1958 when, as an 11-year-old, he followed the fortunes of Colin Cowdrey and co Down Under on the wireless of the family home in Water Street, Accrington. "Although my first love was football, as I grew older I knew I'd never be good enough to become a professional," recalls Bumble. "As a lad, I followed every Ashes series so I saw cricket as my escape. Remember the old Animals song, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place?, well, cricket was my way out of Water Street. My parents were hard-working, lovely people, but it was a tough upbringing." When Lloyd did get out of the place, he found himself in an even tougher neighbourhood at the WACA, Perth, in December 1974 when he made his Ashes debut in the second Test.

Pummelled into defeat by the fearsome bowling of Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee in the opening match which Lloyd missed through injury, England restored Bumble as opener and he quickly found himself joined at the wicket by the 42-year-old Cowdrey, who had been sitting with his feet up at home when he received an SOS (Save Our Skins) from the England selectors. With Thomson firing down leather rockets, Lloyd took the veteran aside and muttered: "You stay up that end against Max Walker because it's all going off down this end." A gesture Cowdrey would later describe "as the most generous act I have ever known in cricket". "Don't forget, they were eight-ball overs in those days," adds Lloyd, "and five of them were bouncers so there were only three balls you could have a dart at. You'd be in there for an hour and then you'd glance up at the scoreboard to see you'd made six." After making a heroic 49 in his first knock, Lloyd was making dogged progress in the second innings when Thomson caught him 'full on' in the most tender part of the anatomy.

"We wore little pink plastic boxes at the time which were totally unsuitable for the job," he explained. "It cracked open and what I had inside fired through before the box snapped shut again like a guillotine coming down. Even after 32 years, I lose my voice just thinking about it. There's retired hurt and then there's retired hurt…" Mike Denness and Tony Greig batted through to the end of day's play, thereby allowing Lloyd to nurse his injured 'pride', but there was more embarrassment to come later that night. "As the junior members of the two teams, Tommo and I were commanded to attend a movie premiere of Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, a sentiment very close to my own heart, I have to say. I was still feeling a bit tender down under so Tommo had to carry me into the cinema like a sack of coal." Lloyd averaged a defiant 26 during the 'Lillee-Thomson Series' before a neck injury sustained while fielding not only prevented him playing in the sixth and final match but brought an end to his Test career. "I was never the same again. But what everyone forgets is that the '74 series was a cracking Ashes.

OK, we lost 4-1, but Australia beat the West Indies of Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd and Gordon Greenidge 5-1 the following winter. We didn't have anything to frighten Australia with, it was pea-shooters against heavy artillery. "Australia were a great, great team. They had the best captain I've ever known in Greg Chappell – what a leader of men; uncompromising on the field but totally fair. I'd known Greg and a number of others from my time in the Lancashire League and they were honest as the day's long, thoroughly nice blokes who'd give you heaps and take heaps as well. That's why I always shared a beer with them in the Aussie dressing room after each day's play." Lloyd did make a fleeting return to international cricket in 1980 when, as he puts it: "Beefy was appointed captain for about three weeks. I'd got hundreds in the Benson & Hedges zonal matches against the might of Minor Counties North and Scotland.

Everyone else's matches had been rained off – it was a rotten May that year – and with the one-day series against the West Indies coming up I thought, 'Bloody 'ell, they're going to pick me'. What can I say? Malcolm Marshall breaks my arm and Beefy being Beefy says, 'You let me down there, Bumble...' To which I replied, 'Well, you should never have picked me in the first place." When his playing career finally finished in 1983, Lloyd became an umpire before serving as England coach from 1996-99, since when he has become an incisive yet always wryly amusing commentator. So, how does he rate England's chances in the 2006-7 Ashes series? "First of all, if it's half as good as last summer's Ashes it will be a classic. I don't believe the propaganda coming out of Australia that England have everything to lose. Ricky Ponting has put it about that all the pressure is on England but I think it's on Australia – 100 per cent.

"Playing in front of their own people in their own back yard, all those great players – Ponting, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden – don't want to be members of a team which loses two Ashes series in a row. The last series will be remembered a century from now and the Aussies will still be hurting that they're the ones who will forever be remembered as the losers." Llloyd admits, however, that Marcus Trescothick's return to these shores will not help England's cause when the phoney war ends on Thursday with the start of the first Test. "It was staggering news and let's be honest here, a massive blow. Everybody thought that he was back on track and looking forward to touring Australia. I am surprised that Marcus was allowed to get so far but obviously the medical people thought he was right. "The England dressing room will have been left absolutely reeling at this news and the situation calls for Andrew Flintoff to get hold of the team to say 'we've managed without Trescothick before so let's get down to business'. I think Alastair Cook will move up to open.

Before this all happened, I thought that maybe Ian Bell or Paul Collingwood wouldn't play in the first Test. But now damage limitation means that they will probably move up one in the order with Cook opening the batting." Given Warne's exploits on English wickets last summer, Lloyd believes it would make good sense for the Australians to prepare spinning pitches this time round. "We couldn't cope with Warne last time but we've got a flippin' trump card in Monty [Panesar]. He is bloody good, a great talent. He looks ungainly in the field; he's painting by numbers as a fieldsman and a Rembrandt with a ball in his hand. He took eight wickets against Pakistan at Old Trafford in July and who did he get out? Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf. That'll do for me. "Ricky Ponting says they're going to target Monty, I hope he does because Monty will bowl them out no bother. He's a match winner. If England bat first and make 450, it should be over to you, Monty.

He's also a lovely level-headed lad, when I spoke to him before he left for Oz he told me 'Last year I was handing in my university dissertation and this year Ricky Ponting's talking about me'. Sad thing is, he [England coach Duncan Fletcher] ain't going to pick him, is he? I think he'll go for Ashley Giles instead." Whatever the personnel chosen and whatever the outcome, Lloyd will tell it like it is in his own inimitable manner which will ensure that no one will be spared his waspish wit. Not even those nearest and dearest to him can escape his withering comments when he deems it justified. Take his wife, Diana, who works at Old Trafford where Bumble was captain of Lancashire for many a long year. "Cricket daft, she is. She's even got her own bat and pads. She's only got buckles on them, not those strap around things. She keeps them in the back of the car in case someone might be a man short and she's called upon to play." Is she good? "Diana? She's roobish, absolute roobish…!" Aye, he's a top bloke our Bumble.

David Lloyd earns accolade despite Lancashire’s bumbling season | Sport | The Guardian David Lloyd earns accolade despite Lancashire’s bumbling season • ‘Bumble’ receives award for contribution to promoting game • Lancastrian recognised for variety of roles in five decades • Major honours go to Yorkshire’s Adam Lyth and Alex Lees Tuesday 30 September 2014 08.18 EDT First published on Tuesday 30 September 2014 08.00 EDT Close This article is 2 years old David Lloyd prevented a Yorkshire clean sweep, and provided Lancashire with a rare success at the end of a miserable 2014 season, by receiving the Peter Smith Award for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of the game of cricket on Tuesday. “Bumble” was recognised at the Cricket Writers’ Club awards ceremony in London, latterly as an eccentric stalwart of the Sky commentary team for the majority of the 200 England Tests covered by the channel since 1990. The other major awards went to Adam Lyth and Alex Lees, Yorkshire’s left-handed opening pair who laid the foundations for their first County Championship triumph for 13 seasons .

Lees, a 21-year-old from Halifax, became the third Yorkshire player in four years to be named Young Player of the Year , following Jonny Bairstow in 2011 and Joe Root in 2012. Lyth, a 27-year-old from Whitby, was the third recipient of the William Hill County Championship Player of the Year award, after scoring 1,489 runs, including six centuries at an average of 67.68. Even as a Lancastrian, Lloyd took plenty of pleasure from their awards too – he has followed Lyth’s progress especially closely all season, even though it included a career-best 251 in the Roses match at Old Trafford, and cost him a bottle of wine following a wager in the spring. Lloyd’s award recognised the variety of roles filled by the 67-year-old in almost five decades in the game since he made his first-class debut for Lancashire against Middlesex in June 1965 – and bagged a pair.

From those unpromising beginnings he scored a total of 17,877 runs in 378 first-class appearances for Lancashire until his retirement at the end of the 1983 season. He also took more than 200 wickets with his left-arm spin, and was a mainstay of the county’s one-day success, playing in four Gillette Cup final wins between 1970 and 1975, the last of them as captain. He played nine Tests and eight one-day internationals for England, scoring the only first-class double century of his career against India at Edgbaston in 1974 , although he has spent much more time talking about the stiffer tests he faced in Australia that winter when Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson were in their fearsome pomp, and protective equipment for batsmen remained basic and limited . After retirement, Lloyd became a first-class umpire, an accomplished after-dinner speaker and also made his first moves into the media as a regular on BBC radio’s Test Match Special.

But his gift for comedy concealed a shrewd and restless cricketing brain, which made him an innovative and successful coach of Lancashire, and then earned him promotion to the England job in 1996. He was the fourth to hold that position, after Micky Stewart, Keith Fletcher and Raymond Illingworth, and, in addition to enjoying series victories over India, New Zealand and South Africa he played a significant part in introducing a new level of professionalism to the England setup that would lead to the introduction of central contracts shortly after he stepped down following a flop on home soil at the 1999 World Cup. But his England tenure is best remembered for his insistence that his team had “flipping murdered” Zimbabwe in a drawn Test in Bulawayo, and perhaps also for his suspicions of the bowling action of Muttiah Muralitharan during a one-off Test against Sri Lanka at The Oval in 1998. He joined Sky in 1999 and is now known and loved well beyond cricket as Bumble, a nickname derived from The Goons which he received in the Lancashire dressing room early in his playing career.

But his considerable cricketing pedigree makes him one of Sky’s sharpest analysts of the game, although again that is easily overlooked because he wears it so lightly in his role as the clown of the commentary team . The Peter Smith Award was introduced in 1992 in memory of the former cricket correspondent of the Daily Mail who became the first media liaison officer at the Test and County Cricket Board, and an eclectic list of previous winners have included David Gower, Brian Lara, Sir Alec Bedser, Andy Flower (for defying Robert Mugabe with his Zimbabwe team-mate Henry Olonga) and Christopher Martin-Jenkins . BUMBLE MARRIAGE IS OVER; LOVE TANGLE ONE. - Free Online Library BUMBLE MARRIAGE IS OVER; LOVE TANGLE ONE. <a href=" Citations: MLA style: "BUMBLE MARRIAGE IS OVER; LOVE TANGLE ONE.." The Free Library. 1998 MGN LTD 19 Jan. 2017 Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v.

BUMBLE MARRIAGE IS OVER; LOVE TANGLE ONE.." Retrieved Jan 19 2017 from APA style: BUMBLE MARRIAGE IS OVER; LOVE TANGLE ONE.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Jan 19 2017 from ENGLAND cricket coach David Lloyd has split from his wife and is living with the ex-wife of a former county batsman. Yesterday, estranged Susan Lloyd said divorce proceedings had begun. The news will shock sports fans and comes just months after England soccer boss Glenn Hoddle announced his marriage had hit the rocks. Former England opening batsman Lloyd, 50, is now sharing a home with Diana Potter, who was married to Kent and Leicester cricketer Laurie Potter. Loyd and Diana are living at a modern pounds 70,000, three-bedroom mews cottage in a south Manchester suburb. The England supremo and father-of-three met attractive blonde Diana - more than 15 years his junior - on the county cricket circuit several years ago. Their friendship became serious when Diana, who divorced Laurie in 1994, moved to Manchester the following year.

Lloyd - nicknamed Bumble because of his strong Lancastrian accent - is currently in the West Indies for England's winter Test series. It is understood Diana will join him next month when the team's wives and girfriends fly out for a short break. Meanwhile, Susan, 48, is living at the family's pounds 90,000 detached bungalow in Accrington, Lancashire. The couple have been married for 29 years. Susan said: "David left some time ago and divorce proceedings have been started. "I don't know what is going to happen. David and I are still very good friends but these things happen." Lloyd landed the England coaching job two years ago after three successful years in charge of Lancashire. Before turning to coaching, he had a glittering playing career with the county and England. He played in nine Tests and scored a double century against India in 1974. In the Eighties, he became a radio commentator and qualified as a first- class cricket umpire. He then guided Lancashire to Benson and Hedges Cup and Nat West Trophy victories.

Before jetting out to the West Indies, he told a friend: "Diana and I realise we will probably be photographed together and then the whole world will know. "The divorce will go through sooner or later but there are no plans for marriage at the moment." On Friday, Diana said at their home: "I don't wish to discuss our personal life. If you want any information you should speak to David." Her former husband Laurie commented: "We split up nearly 10 years ago and I haven't seen her since. "I'm now very happily remarried with children and all this is in the past. We split up for the usual reasons couples do - we just grew apart. "If she's with David Lloyd good luck to her. I don't bear her any malice." Lloyd first met Diana when she worked at Kent County Cricket Club as an administrator. Their friendship grew during visits by Lancashire to Kent's Canterbury headquarters and blossomed into romance before Lloyd landed the England coaching post. The couple have tried to keep their affair under wraps for the sake of his wife and children, with whom he is still close. His eldest son Graham, 28, now plays for Lancashire and has represented the England A side.

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He is affectionately known as 'Bumble'. He was a successful all-rounder who played over a dozen matches for England, scoring over 500 runs in the process. He became an umpire after retiring as a player. In later years he has become a broadcaster for Sky Sports. David Lloyd David Lloyd: Start the car, tweet the Twitter and play the game | The Independent David Lloyd: Start the car, tweet the Twitter and play the game 'Bumble' is buzzing with Twenty20 fervour but the traditions of the game, and the pub, are paramount Saturday 22 May 2010 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online About half a century ago, long before he was Bumble, David Lloyd received the best advice he has ever had. "It came from me dad, who was a Methodist lay preacher," he said. "I wouldn't say he was a God-botherer but he was very religious and never had a drink. If me mother made a sherry trifle at Christmas she had to make one separate because he wouldn't touch it. Anyway, he just said, 'Be yourself, in everything you do, be yourself'." And so he has.

In a lifetime of cricket he has been nothing but himself. What a self it has been, too: warm, engaging, daft, outspoken, emotional. His career, famously, has embraced being player, umpire, coach and commentator-pundit, all done at the highest level. If he won only nine Test caps as a player, he would have won 109 as a commentator. Oh, and tweeter in chief. He has more followers on the social networking site, Twitter, than England have South Africans in their team. It has given him an entirely new audience to hang on to his every word. As with all he does, he has adopted this phenomenon with a zeal which appears to be wholly reciprocated. So that, for instance, he kept up a running update of scores during England's win in the World Twenty20 in Barbados last Sunday between, and probably during, his TV commentary stints.

Before the toss, the world was informed: "Groundsman says bit drier than normal not as much pace." Or during England's rampant chase: "Pietersen out, 118-2." By the following day he was chronicling his troubled journey home and by Thursday night, having got there, that "some bastard is pinching the cushions from the pub". All this is followed by 68,148 people and counting. Bumble likes pubs, probably as much as he likes cricket, and he still adores that after all these years. He has two locals, one round the corner from home in Cheshire, one a train ride away in the heart of Manchester. He likes to arrive at around 5.30pm, have a chat and a pint and then push off home. Early doors, he calls it. "I am a massive protector of the British pub," he said. "Too many of them are going to the wall, but it's a place of conversation and a good sup. I don't do music and bandits, just conversation, a good sup, see you tomorrow." Not much of the conversation revolves round cricket, for he is aware that you can have too much of a good thing.

He and his pals in one of the boozers formed themselves into a quasi-regiment in which they call themselves military nicknames and are always on manoeuvres – Group Captain Clarke, the Brigadier, 34 Regular and his favourite, Private Macca of Bulgaria and his Failed Bulgarian Property Empire. "They know I'm involved in cricket but they don't give me any hassle," he said. "They've not much idea what's going on at the best of times about anything. This bloke, Macca, he bought one or two properties in Bulgaria and left them with an agent to rent. "For two years he never saw a penny so he went over on spec and finds there's people been living there for two years. He had to get them out, and then it needed refurbishing, of course. Then he met some bloke in a pub who said he could do the job, it was either five grand or 10 grand, and he said he could bring the stuff round, no sweat. He has never seen the bloke from that day to this." This is all related with that effervescent glee that has become so familiar on the airwaves these past two decades.

He was an irregular on Test Match Special for years (he is generous in his thanks to its former producer, Peter Baxter) and since he resigned as England coach in 1999 he has been the knockabout act on Sky, the comic to all those straight-men former England captains. The new book he has out – Private Macca's tale is there in all its glory - is a paean to cricket and pubs and laddishness and gentle grumpiness. It takes its title – The World According To Bumble: Start The Car – from his best-loved catchphrase. It is an amiable ramble around the lanes of his life. But they all lead back to cricket eventually, as they always have. There is a serious man of cricket here, the one who is David Lloyd and not Bumble. He was in his element during the World Twenty20 in the West Indies and despite an unfamiliar and occasionally perplexing production crew, he managed to avoid letting the joins show. The short game suits his style, but do not run away with the notion that he is totally bewitched. "I have been going to Twenty20 since 2003 and don't confuse it with cricket," he said.

"Twenty20 is a shoot-out, sheer entertainment played with cricket equipment, and it's not that serious. You don't pull anybody to bits. "But the fielding is out of sight and teams do get exposed, which is great fun. I do worry about Test cricket because if you look at the sub-continent the hub of the game is geared towards the Indian Premier League which, looking from the outside in, has got massive problems. "You hear all sorts of stories about the administration, about the finance from players and the coaches. It's easy street. Coaches want to run it properly and do warm-ups, and a section of players say we don't do that and I think that has showed through in the World Twenty20. One, they weren't fit; two, they were fat, and they ain't going to survive. What really saddens me is the massive rumours about irregularities. The ACU [Anti-Corruption Unit] isn't involved in IPL and it's open to abuse." His view on Twenty20, his belief that Test cricket remains not only the acme of the game but also that to which players aspire, is the serious David Lloyd coming through.

He recognises that England played authentically good cricket in the Caribbean to grab their T20 glory and that the imminent Test series against Bangladesh may have its detractors. "It's not a Test match, it's a mismatch but it fits in with the ICC two-year programme, which probably needs a bit of tweaking," he said. "There are all sorts of things you can do but they're not winning, although people would argue that New Zealand went 45 Test matches before they won, so... I have no answer to it, other than that the game needs strong administration and doesn't deserve or need to be bullied by certain countries because Test-match cricket is what the players want." He has enjoyed all his roles in the game, though playing it can never be replaced. Perhaps that is why, when his home-town club of Accrington came calling, he was only too eager to help. He had not lost his touch, and last summer he hit the winning runs to clinch the Lancashire League title, "although I only got four". His favourite moment came earlier in the season when he made top score on a sticky dog, hit a bowler over the ropes and asked him what it was like to be hit for six by a pensioner.

After finishing as a professional player, Bumble presently became an umpire. He loved it but looks back now on it as a lost age. The umpire was the boss back then. Not now. Umpires, he believes, have to try to appease the players. "You wouldn't have dared stand out of line when Syd Buller and Charlie Elliott were umpiring," he said. "I really would like cricket to get back to total respect for umpires. There is too much growling. I'm an advocate of yellow and red cards in cricket. Then everybody on the grounds knows what's gone on if anybody has stepped out of line. It would be like Trident, such a deterrent that you'd never get any trouble." One of the great growlers is Stuart Broad, on whom Bumble gazes with a combination of opprobrium and laughter. Young Stuart of the choir-boy face and gangster temper receives a mention in the book. "I've done a bit on the world's great ranters. Of course, Adolf Hitler was number one, then you move on to Alex Ferguson, Wayne Rooney and now Stuart, of course. He usually throws a rant when the umpire says not out when he's bowling or out when he's batting.

He's coming along nicely, moving up the ratings of the world's great ranters." Bumble never stops. His next role is to record a part in a play to be staged in Scarborough this summer about a chap called in from Yorkshire League cricket to play for the county in Twenty20 cricket. It came from meeting one of his pals, John Henshaw, over a pint, another reason for saving the British pub. "I absolutely love the game," he said. "I think the game is fantastic. It's what you were brought up to do, it was what I wanted to do from the age of 15, and so you pinch yourself now at 63 that you're still involved. There are a lot of things that are wrong that need putting right but equally there are a lot of things that are right." Like Bumble.

David Lloyd will be commentating for Sky Sports during England's summer of cricket, starting with the First Test v Bangladesh at Lord's from 10am on Thursday, exclusively live on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports HD 1 Life and times The Best of Bumble: 10 Great Clips of Commentator David Lloyd in Action | Bleacher Report The Best of Bumble: 10 Great Clips of Commentator David Lloyd in Action Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse the slideshow Gareth Copley/Getty Images Lancastrian legend: David "Bumble" Lloyd 4.2K 1 Comment David “Bumble” Lloyd’s unmistakable dulcet tones have been heard on British TV screens for the past decade and more, and so to celebrate the quirky Lancastrian’s broadcasting career to date, we take a look back at some of the commentator’s most memorable clips. Tweet During England's tour of South Africa in 2009-10, Lloyd managed to become distracted while commentating on the action by the appearance in the crowd of a young lady in a bikini attempting to eat a rather large sausage. This had predictably funny consequences alongside co-commentator Mike Atherton.

Tweet The excitement and drama of the climax to India's match against South Africa at the World T20 in 2007 proved all too much for "Bumble", who first thought that India fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth had clean bowled the hosts' wicketkeeper Mark Boucher, before then announcing that actually the ball had gone for four, and then finally claiming it was a no-ball!! In fact, Lloyd had been right the first time around as the Proteas batsman had indeed been bowled! Tweet In a Test match between England and West Indies at Lord's in May 2007, the tourists' big-hitting opener Chris Gayle took a nasty blow in the nether regions from the home team's paceman Steve Harmison, producing the inevitable reaction from the crowd of much laughter and sniggering. However Lloyd, who was commentating at the time with former West Indies captain Jimmy Adams, was quick to sympathise with Gayle after himself having been struck an equally painful, and now infamous, knock to the same amidships region by Australia fast bowler Dennis Lillee on England's 1974/75 Ashes tour Down Under.

Question: Which former English cricketer is known by the nickname ‘Bumble’?
Answer: David Lloyd