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Richard Clarke: Joe Denly is one of a dying breed

With his arms folded, a matter-of-fact manner and sporting a physique much younger than his four decades, Joe Denly did not look like he was ending a successful 23-year association with Kent when he spoke to the Canterbury crowd at the close of play last Friday.

With his arms folded, a matter-of-fact manner and sporting a physique much younger than his four decades, Joe Denly did not look like he was ending a successful 23-year association with Kent when he spoke to the Canterbury crowd at the close of play last Friday.

OK, so he was not a one-club man – the interviewer avoided mentioning Middlesex by name when discussing his couple of seasons ‘up the road’ – but it certainly felt like he was.
That is why Somerset gave him a guard of honour onto the pitch and his team-mates gave him one off it.
For years, Denly was the Kentish man (or is it Man of ...

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