Cecil Wright: Tributes to cricket ace who played last game at 85
Former Lancashire captain John Abrahams, whose father Cec Abrahams played for Milnrow, said: "He was a friend of my dad. He was true gentleman.
"He was genuinely quick but also very innovative - he had one delivery which batters only saw very late."
Wright's only game for Jamaica was not a success as he bowled against a Barbados team that included cricket greats Wes Hall, Collie Smith and Seymour Nurse without taking a wicket.
Yet he found life within Lancashire league cricket a happier hunting ground, and continued terrorising batsmen in his latter years as a wily medium pacer who could also handle the bat.
He once recounted the time the late Sir Frank Worrell, a famous West Indies captain, gave him a piece of advice that he credited with changing his fortunes bowling in England.
"He said you're not in Jamaica anymore, you know. Up here, you're bowling in the mud," Wright said.
"He told me how to go about bowling when it's wet, and I haven't looked back ever since."
But to Ms Wright, and her siblings Courtney and Laura, he was "just our lovely dad".
"Even up until recently - I'm 60 now - and I would go and see him and when I'd leave he would say 'ring me when you get home so I know you got home safe'."
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