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He is one of the greatest opening batsman of all time,

who made history by becoming the first professional England captain, a Yorkshire cricket legend who's today

being championed by another great Yorkshireman, Harold Dickie Bird, now retired but one of our best-known cricket umpires, is here to talk about his

great life, Sir Leonard Hutton.

Dickie, I'm not surprised you've picked a cricketer and a Yorkshireman as your great life. Was he a hero for you growing up?

Yeah, it was every school boy's ambition to be a lien. They wanted to be lien because he was a great player and I never thought that my first

practices with Yorkshire as a 16 year old kid that I went for that my first net to practice there that in my net was the great man himself.

You must have been stunned.

Oh, I was stunned.

But of course it was the end of his career then going towards the end of his career.

Did he speak to you? Oh yeah, just... end of his career then getting towards end of his career.

Did he speak to you?

Yeah, oh yeah just, I asked him if I could have a word with him.

I said to him, can you help me Mr. Sutton? I'm an opening batsman. Is there any advice you could give me?

He looked at me and he turned away. He said, hi lad, I'll give it, I'll give it some advice. It's very, very difficult.

And then he say, come back. He said, think of Freddie Stair, the dancer, feet in batting is the most important thing.

And I'll correct. I all sort of that, you know, Fred Astaire.

When did you decide that umpiring was what you wanted to do rather than playing?

One or two people when I finished, set to me have you thought of becoming an umpiring?

Well I thought they were joking. How old were you then? to be about

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