Dickie Bird of the greatest cricket club in the world". In August 2014, Bird was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to "The Guardian" expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Dickie Bird Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird, (born 19 April 1933, Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a retired English international cricket umpire. In February 2014, Yorkshire announced that Bird is to be voted in as the club's president at their Annual General Meeting on 29 March. The son of a miner, he
Dickie Dodds book, which was entitled "Hit Hard and Enjoy It"; the foreword is thought to be the last work that Cardus did before his death. Dodds later wrote a cricket coaching book, "Cricket: From Father to Son", in 1979. Dodds' first wife Ann, whom he married in 1960, died in 1978; they had one son. He married Kathleen Johnson in 1985. Dickie Dodds Thomas Carter Dodds, known in his cricket career as Dickie Dodds and outside it as Carter Dodds, (29 May 1919 – 17 September 2001) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex between 1946 and 1959 as