Lives in Cricket No 10 - John Shepherd

favourite. There were champagne corks popping in the dressing room which prompted Shep, with a smile as ever, to inquire if anyone could tell him why he was celebrating being sacked. And that was that! A litterateur among the county’s supporters would later find a relevant quotation in Shakespeare. It appears in Henry VI Part II , where Jack Cade says, ‘Tell Kent from me, she hath lost her best man.’ Kent: The Final Years 106 And that was that. John Shepherd leads out the Kent side in his 250th and last ‘List A’ limited-overs match for the county. At Canterbury against Worcestershire on 13 September 1981.