Len was a right handed lower middle order batsman with an orthodox technique – but cricket was not his first sport. He was an outstanding hockey player and played to an exceptional high standard having been introduced to the sport during his National Service with the Army (1947-49). It was not until he was thirty-four and his hockey demands diminished that he found time to take up his second passion, cricket, on a regular basis. He was introduced to the cricket club by Bill Ash in 1963. Despite having had operations to remove damaged cartilages when he was still a young man he continued with both sports into his forties and was a good ground fielder in defiance of his age.

In his first season he scored 132 runs (av. 11.00) which remained his best. Batting at number six, his best score was 38 v RACS on 24.08.1963 sharing in a stand of 61 with Ted Gorham. His only other participation in a fifty stand was 53 for the seventh wicket with Stan Chisnell v Goddington on 20.08.1967. Len’s contribution was 32.Batting in the middle order many of Len’s innings were only a cameo of his talent as he often found himself with only tail-enders for support. An easy-going, likeable personality he was a popular player.

He became close friends with Harry Pearce and the two of them formed a business partnership trading as a hardware shop in St Mary’s Cray, Orpington. At one time Len incurred a frozen shoulder and missed a couple of seasons. It handicapped him somewhat in his later seasons and sadly he subsequently also developed Multiple Sclerosis. He bore this painful condition in typical uncomplaining fashion and in the nineteen-nineties could be found as a bar steward at the STC Ivor Grove club when the Club were playing their cricket there.

Married late in life to Bobbie they were thrilled to be blessed with a baby daughter, Jill born on Christmas Eve 1972. Len was 44 years old the following day.

In 2002 he suffered a heart attack from which he recovered after surgery but in which a defective heart valve was discovered. A recent five week spell in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Woolwich saw a pacemaker fitted but Len remained unwell and was re-admitted to Darenth Hospital where unfortunately he developed pneumonia and died.

He leaves his widow, Bobbie and their daughter Jill and is survived by an older brother, Arthur. A younger sister, Doris, died in 1988.