Mike Bore, Yorkshire cricketer and youth coach

Bore began his career in his native Hull and made his second team debut for Yorkshire in 1967. He went on to play 74 first-class games for the white rose county between 1969 and 1977, taking 162 wickets.

Later, at Trent Bridge, he played in 74 first class matches and was in Nottinghamshire’s county championship winning sides of 1981 and 1987.

A medium-pace bowler later effective as a brisk spinner in the Derek Underwood mould, he was not known for his batting skills, but nevertheless made headlines with Yorkshire in 1973 when, in the championship match in Bradford, he joined Geoffrey Boycott in a last wicket partnership of 108 against Nottinghamshire. At the time it was the fifth highest last wicket stand in Yorkshire’s history.

Less happily, he was a central figure in the championship that literally slipped from Nottinghamshire’s grasp at the last moment in 1984.

With the title at stake, Richard Ollis, on the field as a substitute, caught Bore off the penultimate ball against Somerset at Taunton.

Bore swung hard but couldn’t clear the 6ft 4in Ollis on the long-off fence.

Mike Bore could trace his cricketing roots back to Hull Town CC, from where he worked his way into the Yorkshire Federation side of 1966.

He then had spells in Leeds and Bradford, helping the Park Avenue side lift the Priestley Cup in 1973.

He played past 40, retiring in 1988 and becoming actively involved in coaching at the indoor cricket school at Headingley, where he was responsible for the development of many outstanding young cricketers - among them, the future England captain, Michael Vaughan.

His friend and former Nottinghamshire teammate Paul Johnson said Mr Bore would have been a prized asset for any county in the modern game.

“In this day and age, he’d be great to call upon because he could swing the new ball into the right-hand batsman at a decent medium pace then turn himself into a very accurate spinner, who had a wicked arm ball,” Mr Johnson said.

“In later years that arm ball would embarrass many a junior batsman when Mike took over the running and the captaincy of the second eleven.”

An endearing idiosyncrasy, added Mr Johnson, was the way he would navigate the roads using only fish and chip shops as markers.

“He had his own code for the size of the portion as well. If it was just a normal bag full then he would say it was an OTA – an off the arm, meaning he could carry it.

“Anything bigger was an OTB – on the bonnet, meaning he’d need to rest the bag on something. He was the Egon Ronay of fish and chips.”

Mr Bore leaves a widow, Ann, a son, Chris, and a daughter, Susan. The funeral service will be at St. John’s Church in his home town of Knaresborough, next Friday at 12.30pm.