Richard Spiller discovers how a passion for the game and an eye for progress enabled Bernie Coleman to become one of the sport’s most significant figures

Bernie Coleman loved watching Test matches with Boris Karloff – but his involvement in English cricket was anything but a horror story.
A boundary hit away from his century, the familiar twinkle is still there but Coleman admits he can no longer travel to his beloved home ground of The Kia Oval, where he was a highly influential figure for many years and Surrey’s president in 1991.
An 18-year spell as ...