Tony Kingston: Long-serving Northamptonshire scorer steps down after 32 years
Tony Kingston first went to the County Ground to watch football, but cricket soon became a lifelong passion
"I think I'd have still been there but for David Lucas, a left-arm bowler we had at the time, and his wife - they called an ambulance and I was admitted to hospital. This summer, though, he will be absent from the scorer's seat at Wantage Road as his ongoing health issues have prompted his decision to retire from the role.
"As bad luck would have it, he left himself out of the team when they played Northants and put Lindsay Hassett in charge of the team so I didn't see him." "It was as if I had a season ticket," said Tony, who unsurprisingly regards the home of cricket as his favourite ground apart from Wantage Road. "It's got to be Allan Lamb. It wasn't so much the number of runs he scored, it was the rate he scored them at. You didn't realise the scoreboard was ticking over. He would score so quickly that he would give our bowlers time to bowl the opposition out," he explained.
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