Masterful fast medium bowler who played 30 Tests for
England and shone for Derbyshire and NottinghamshireThe cricketer Mike Hendrick, who has died aged 72 of bowel
cancer, was a supremely accurate and dependable right-arm fast medium bowler who played 30 times for England in the 1970s and early 80s.
Possessed of a rhythmic, perfectly sideways-on action, at times he almost appeared to bowl too well for his own good, seaming the ball away from the righthander so deliciously and on such a consistently tricky line that it was difficult even to lay a bat on him.