Bye-bye Bomber, a sunny face of county cricket past
"The passing of radical bowler Bryan 'Bomber' Wells reveals how far old bonds of comradeship in cricket have declined," writes David Foot in the Guardian blog.
He came from the same rather incestuous, ecclesiastical city as two other slow bowlers of infinite cunning and eyes like an Edwardian poacher from the Forest of Dean, Charlie Parker and Tom Goddard. There was a natural anti-feudal sting to their words, especially that of Charlie, the farm labourer's boy who years later in his cups would quote Marx and the scriptures with equal fervou
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo