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After retiring from cricket, Ted Dexter was still heavily involved in English cricket
Ted Dexter, a former captain of England and Sussex, has passed away at the age of 86.
Dexter, also known as Lord Ted, was an aggressive batsman who was also a useful seam bowler. He played 62 Tests for England between 1961-1964 and was named captain.
He won the Gillette Cup in Sussex the first two times and then made a surprising return in 1968 with a second test.
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), in a statement, described Dexter "one of England’s greatest ever cricketers".
"He was captain for 30 of his 62 Test matches, and played the game the same way with adventure and fun as he did his extraordinary life."
Dexter died peacefully at the Compton Hospice in Wolverhampton on Wednesday 25 August at noon, surrounded and loved by his family.
Dexter was an attacking middle-order batsman who scored 4,502 runs in England at an average of 47.89 and took 66 wickets at 34.9.
He was well-known for his power and ability to hit the ball. His most memorable innings was against West Indies at Lord's 1963, when he was at 0-1 and scored 70 runs from 73 deliveries. Six of his nine Test centuries were larger than 140.
After finishing second in his ward, he missed 1964-65's South Africa tour. He joined the team as vice captain.
He retired after helping to create a ranking system of Test players and was the chairman of selectors in England.
International Cricket Council adopted the ranking system and it formed the basis for today's system.
After inheriting a weak England team in 1989-93, he found it difficult to be a selector.
Later, he was named president of Marylebone Cricket Club. In 2001, he was awarded a CBE.
