Henry Pryor obituary

<p>My father, Henry Pryor, who has died aged 92, devoted much of his life to grassroots cricket coaching and the invention of the bowling machine <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4227894.stm">Merlyn.</a> Merlyn proved revolutionary, both in how it made the ball torque and in playing a part in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3orqfIK_dLk">England winning the Ashes</a> in 2005, for the first time in 18 years.</p><p>Always interested in cricket, my father had become a coach in his 50s, when I started playing as a child. He joined the Association of Cricket Coaches and began coaching primary schoolchildren in inner-city areas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/06/henry-pryor-obituary">Continue reading...</a>