Coming soon - Andrew West - A cricketing life

Regular readers of this blog - if there are any left - will be quite interested to hear that John Crossland has prepared an appraisal of the cricketing career of Nomads' controversial medium pacer.  This will appear on these pages soon, and I will add my own Golden Moments of West (surprisingly, I could only think of about 14 of them, but I'm sure other Nomads' players will be able to think of some I have forgotten.)
It was sad recently when Brian Close passed away and they printed that bittersweet photo of a semi-naked Close smiling wrily and covered with bruises.  It set me thinking about what a similar picture of Andrew would be like.  Instead of the semi-smile there might be an angry snarl and he would be mouthing something like; "F***ing Bo***cks." Also, the bruises would not have been inflicted by lifters from Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith or Michael Holding, but by freak pre-match catching practice injuries from throws by Emil, Nick or Raj.  The overall effect would be similar though - 2 charismatic cricketers who laughed in the face of pain and injury.