Lever of Lancashire

[fredfertang]

Lever of Lancashire

A good bowler rather than a great one, Peter Lever was nonetheless one of Martin's childhood heroes, and in this feature he tells his story

 

[chasingthedon]

You mentioned you bumped into him once in a shop - care to elaborate on that?

 

[fredfertang]

Not quite Dave - I managed to get a phone number for him when I was writing this and when he answered my call said he was in a shop and asked me to call back later, which I did a few times but sadly he never picked up

I did mention in our brief conversation that I wanted to ask him about the pension, so I hope his not answering was because, as I suggest in the article, he did get some sort of settlement, with a confidentiality agreement

Also wanted to ask him why his nickname was 'Plank' - all I've found out on that one is that it wasn't the same reason Richard Ellison had it