You are cordially invited to celebrate Terry's long innings at a memorial party to toast his fun-packed and interesting life and eat the obligatory curry.

Thursday April 11th at The Crossways in Churt from 6-6:30.

Please advise lynheigl@btinternet.com if you can attend. He would have loved you to be there!

It is with great sadness that the club announces the death of Terry Cartwright, a player, committee member and Vice President of the club for well over 30 years.
An obdurate opening batsman with a solid defence, Terry sold his wicket dearly and was an important part of the 1998 I’Anson winning side seeing off the new ball and setting up a platform for the middle order. He went on to win the 2nd XI batting cup in 1999 and shares the second highest 2nd XI partnership for the second wicket – 149no with Cobbo (89no). In 2002 he was awarded the Hopkins Bowl for his massive contribution to the club as a player and as Fixtures Secretary.

It’s fair to say TCC saw Terry largely in the twilight of his cricket career but the ease with which he accumulated his runs more than hinted at the quality batsman he must have been in earlier years. A career total of 29 hundreds speaks of a man with a good eye and prodigious levels of concentration. His favourite shot was the glide through third. He was a Jedi master at this shot and could seemingly split despairing slips at will wherever they were repositioned. His passing leaves your correspondent and Phil Knight as the remaining fellows of The Terry Cartwright Batting Academy although Mark Ramesar is soon to be offered Associate Fellowship.

Of course, Terry’s real sporting aptitude as a youth was at tennis and he competed at Junior Wimbledon in the late 60s. Occasionally, a whipped bottom hand through midwicket would bear testimony to all those hours on the court with the Dunlop Maxpli.
When he stopped playing, Terry immediately joined the I’Anson pool of umpires. As you’d expect of an opening batsman who had endured the vagaries of the moving new ball throughout his career, he was a splendid “Not Outer” – you had to be right back in front of all three and hit shin high before he would deign to consider an appeal for LBW. He set a fine example to all those trigger-happy fools in our midst. You know who you are – Pup, Rhys…

But we remember Terry mostly as a man. A good and loyal friend to many, he was a convivial host and charming company. He was always unfailingly courteous to everyone although his gentle old school manners belied a mischievous sense of humour.
In his later years he battled dementia with great fortitude and before he became too ill bequeathed a sizeable library of cricket magazines and books to me. He wouldn’t take any money. A good bottle of wine and a huge plate of prawns – his favourite dish – at The Rose and Crown in Farringdon was payment enough he insisted. “I just want them to go to a good home”, he told me. And so, a thousand more stories of heroic deeds and feats of cricketing derring-do now reside on those bookshelves and each book is a reminder of Terry – a fine Tilford cricketer and an even finer man.

Mark Bussell