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A cricketing giant has fallen.
Mike Procter, who died at 77 in an Umhlanga hospital on Saturday afternoon, was simply one of cricket's greatest all-rounders, a genuinely fast bowler, capable off-spinner, hard-hitting middle-order batsman, and astute captain.
In addition to his exploits as a player, he served cricket at every other level too: national captain and coach, administrator, selector, commentator, elite ICC match referee, and, in his final years, a mentor who took the game to hundreds of underprivileged youngsters in the wider Durban area. Procter played his cricket in South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Australia (as a prominent "import" in Kerry Packer's World Series), and Gloucestershire.
