Gang of four: A highlight of Dickie's Christmas was to preside at the Wombwell Cricket Lovers' Society's Diamond Anniversary Lunch, at which the speaker was Sir Michael Parkinson, second from right, with whom Dickie once shared a double-century opening partnership for Barnsley in the Yorkshire League. They are flanked by fellow Society patrons Sir Lawrence Byford, extreme left, and Mike Cowan, the left-arm paceman who used to take the new ball with Fred Trueman. Sir Lawrence is a former President and Chairman of Yorkshire County Cricket Club