Alan Igglesden

Alan Paul Igglesden (8 October 1964 – 1 November 2021) was an English Test cricketer. He played three Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club, taking 592 wickets for the club.

Cricket career Igglesden was born in Farnborough, at that time part of Kent, in 1964. As a teenager, Igglesden played for his home town club, Westerham Cricket Club in Kent, and his pacey seam bowling was instrumental in the club retaining its North Kent League title in 1983. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut for the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone. He went on to play for Kent until August 1998, making 283 appearances for the Kent First XI and taking 592 first-class and List A wickets. He took 50 first-class wickets in a season for Kent four times and recorded 19 five wicket hauls and two ten wicket matches for the county; in 1989 he took 90 wickets for Kent in 42 matches and was awarded his county cap. Igglesden took three wickets on his debut, and was the England A team's leading bowler on their tour of Zimbabwe in 1989/90, taking 5 for 33 in the third unofficial "Test". But he was then not picked again by England until 1993.

In 1993, Igglesden was picked for the first Test, again against Australia, and it appeared he may have had a few games to prove his worth. In the end, he did not play in a single Test that summer, courtesy of a groin injury and then a side strain. He did appear twice in Tests and in four ODIs against the West Indies in 1993/94, but took only three Test wickets and was not picked again. after a routine MRI scan, doctors discovered a non-malignant but inoperable brain tumour. He was treated with radiotherapy and drugs which initially led to a significant reduction in the size of the tumour.