Post by enoughisenough on Oct 1, 2022 10:00:21 GMT
Very sad to learn of the passing of Robin Marlar. Like a number of Sussex legends of that era - Jim Parks, Don Smith, Ted Dexter, Ian Thomson - he enjoyed a very good innings. He was captain of Sussex when I first went to Hove with my grandparents in the late Fifties. Although he was never quite good enough to make it to international level, his performance as an off spinner at county level was right up there with the best. As one of those members lucky enough to attend the Championship-winning celebratory lunch at the Corn Exchange in 2004, myself and my two guests - all of us junior members in the late Fifties/early Sixties - were very pleased to have Marlar and Ian Thomson as the former player guests on our table. Huge credit is especially due to Marlar for his role as Chairman, in the immediate aftermath of the 1997 revolution, together with Tony Pigott, in seeing Sussex through those turbulent times and making some very good decisions on the cricketing side of the club to pave the way for the future success.
