Lives in Cricket No 32 - Eric Rowan

5 He was not frightened of telling umpires what he thought of them. I remember once when his appeal for LBW was turned down he went up to the umpire, whose one eye was suspect, and said to him, ‘If you can see me, tell me how many more of your decisions are suspect?’ I consider myself lucky to be able to say that Eric was one of my best friends. Foreword by John Watkins