Get down, Shep

Clarke, you drip - I could get better drift whilst hopping.

My earliest memories of cricket umpiring relates not to Dickie Bird or to Shakoor Rana, but to David Shepherd.

With full acknowledgement of how subjective this claim is, I reckon Shep had as much of a hand in my enduring pleasure of cricket as Beefy or Richie.

For a glorious obituary, read David Foot's eulogy.

Anyway, rest in peace David. You were proper.