PETER LONGFIELD
By Nick Bush
It is with great sadness that the club announces the death of Peter Longfield from a suspected heart attack at the age of just 60. Peter played for the colts in the late 60’s and was instrumental in bringing some of the well known faces to the club in the 70’s, including Peter Doole, Nick Bush and a number of others, either directly or indirectly.
Peter was primarily a batsman who always enjoyed the game, if not always with the concentration his talent deserved. He could be a very prolific run scorer and sometimes had a very short stays at the crease, but was always a fun guy to be with a wicked sense of humour.
He moved to the USA in the late 80’s where he continued his career and raised his family.
He was a Bessborough man through and through and will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with Sue and his family.
Tribute from Club President Graham Sainsbury
We grew up together through the club and while entirely different people cricket and Bessborough brought us together.
We played in the first ever colts game together around 1966 against Paul White's eleven (a person I worked with over thirty years at the Land Registry).We both got our first fifties in cricket putting on a hundred in a 20 over game. The umpires were John Wickens and of course Viv.
Peter was a very gifted batsmen who never achieved his full potential. As a pair were very effective as entirely different batters and drove bowlers mad as if you bowled the same lenghths to both of us you would suffer.
The stories re Peter are endless and Bessborough resurgents in the seventies was in no small part to Peter. A sad loss and he will be missed, Sains.