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Colin Everton Hunte Croft. Guyana, Demerara, Lancashire & West Indies 1971-1982. Single page handwritten letter from a young Colin Croft to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. Dated 7th August 1973, Croft thanks the Club for the award of a plaque following his attendance on a course with English Colts. Croft talks of his desire to play cricket in England, his frustration at not being selected to play for Guyana, and his job as an Assistant Air Traffic Control Officer. Signed ‘Colin Croft’ with an enclosed press cutting of Croft with his plaque. There then follows a short typed note dated 25th October 1973 from Deakins to ‘Derief’ Taylor (Jamaica & Warwickshire) with handwritten notes by Taylor describing Croft as ‘very promising... could become a first-class cricketer’, and a further letter dated 29th July 1974 from Deakins to Croft, apologising for the delay in replying, and asking to be kept updated on his progress in cricket. Good condition.