Lester the revolutionary
29.04.26, 06:30 Updated 12.05.26, 20:35 3 Minute Read
Bruce Talbot
It might be a few months too late to add to your Christmas wish list, but if you’re not old enough to remember the glory years at the start of the decade, when Sussex were serial trophy winners and want to revisit them, then Lester and the Deckchair Revolution might be a good place to start.
The book was released last November and Lester was planning to spend this summer helping to promote it. Then in early February came the terrible news that he had died of a heart attack at the family home in Sussex, aged 67.
It was a shock to everyone who knew him. As he talks about in his book, he’d had health issues throughout his life but former teammates and pals who had seen him in the weeks before he died thought he looked well and was in good spirits. Not surprisingly it was standing room only at the Holy Trinity Church in Colemans Hatch on Ashdown Forest when he was laid to rest on 23 February. Mourners were invited to dress ‘with a hint of pink.’ That was Lester, colourful right until the end.
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