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Milburn play to tour county grounds
- Updated: August 9, 2016
A new play on the tragic decline of former England and Northamptonshire batsman Colin Milburn will visit all 18 county cricket clubs in November.
When the Eye Has Gone is a one-man show that has been written by James Graham-Brown, the former Kent and Derbyshire all-rounder turned playwright, and is being produced by Live Wire/Roughhouse Theatre in association with the Professional Cricketers’ Association.
The play is set in the North Briton pub in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham on February 28 1990, the last day of Milburn’s life and the end of his performance as ‘Jolly Ollie’, the character he had developed to conceal his insecurities and suffering.
Milburn, whose destructive career was cut short by the loss of the sight in his left eye in a car accident in May 1969, died in the North Briton car park aged 48 after he drifted into chronic alcoholism.
All county clubs have agreed to support the PCA in putting on the play around the country, partly with the intention of helping current players appreciate the importance of …
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