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Hugh Morris, the erstwhile England cricketer who aboriginal spent clip arsenic main enforcement of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has died. He was 62.
Glamorgan, the Welsh region squad wherever Morris played his home cricket and was captain, said connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) successful a connection that Morris died aft an “extremely difficult” past fewer years, during which helium was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
An opening batter, Morris made 3 appearances for England and helped Glamorgan go region champions successful 1997 — his last twelvemonth earlier status with a vocation tally of 19,785 runs successful first-class cricket and a batting mean of 40.29.
He past served the ECB successful a fig of roles for 16 years, including arsenic CEO during a palmy play for the men's nationalist team.
Morris returned to Glamorgan successful 2013 arsenic its CEO and helped the squad stave disconnected fiscal issues.
Dan Cherry, the existent Glamorgan CEO, said Morris was “a large player, a tireless administrator, and a good quality being of large dignity and integrity.”
“Hugh leaves america with an outstanding legacy, not slightest a stadium present astatine Sophia Gardens of planetary calibre — a acold outcry so from the crushed erstwhile helium archetypal played for Glamorgan arsenic a teen — positive a Welsh Fire franchise (in The Hundred competition) poised for adjacent greater occurrence successful the cricketing scenery of the 2020s and beyond," Cherry said.
