Lester and the Deckchair Revolution

The best schoolboy rackets player in the country; the Sussex player whose first three first-class wickets were
a hat trick of internationals; and yes, he did postpone his wedding to play his only Test for his country on the
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll tour of New Zealand; the man who has injected himself as a diabetes sufferer every
day for the past 35 years; the figurehead of the deckchair revolution that led to Sussex winning the first County
Championship title in their history; the oesophageal cancer sufferer who has overcome the illness.
And yes, these are all one man. Anthony Charles Shackleton Pigott. As befits a distant relative of the explorer
Ernest Shackleton, it’s one hell of a story.
Told with the brutal honesty of a man who knows his cricket never scaled the heights but, after 46 full years in
the game as player, coach, chief executive, pitch inspector and match referee, is now on a mission to help other
cricketers suffering from cancer.