Warwickshire bowler who went on to have a successful career as a cricket commentator with the BBC and TalkSport radio
Jack Bannister, who has died aged 85, had a busy, varied life in sport, principally cricket, on and off the field, as a Warwickshire bowler, a cricket correspondent for the Birmingham Post, a broadcaster for the BBC and TalkSport radio, and a founding member in the late 1960s of the Professional Cricketers’ Association.
Bannister was born in Wolverhampton, and raised in Birmingham, where he was educated at King Edward VI Five Ways school. The family home was near the county ground at Edgbaston, and Bannister made his debut for Warwickshire as a medium-fast bowler in 1950. Long and successful though his cricket career turned out to be, it was but a launchpad for other notable cricket activities.
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