Derek Pringle looks back at the life and career of much-loved Essex and England legend, Doug Insole

Doug Insole was one of cricket’s most influential power-brokers. His passing, at the age of 91, will have been mourned from Chingford, where he lived, to Cootamundra, the birthplace of his good friend Donald Bradman, as well as all cricketing points between.
In a life that was as varied as it was long, Insole’s first job after school was to work as an Army translator during the last years of World War Two. When asked about it he always said, with typical self-de...