CRICKET: WILTSHIRE cricket stalwart Gordon Gay has died at Salisbury Hospice last week just three days short of his 71st birthday.

Mr Gay was co-founder of the Wiltshire Cricket Association, serving as secretary from 1968 to 1985 and chairman from 1985 to 1999. He set up the Wiltshire Coaches Association in 1982, having become the first advanced and staff coach in the county six years earlier.