Dickie Bird broke down in tears as he commemorated his friend Sir Michael Parkinson, remembering how he had actually talked to the famous talk program host on the day that he passed away.
Parkinson, among Britain’s most well known broadcasters, passed away on Wednesday night aged 88 after a brief disease.
Bird, a retired global cricket umpire, informed Times Radio that he had actually talked to his “true friend” on the phone previously in the day and was “completely stunned and shocked” by the loss.
Parkinson and Bird had been firm friends since they were children
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Recalling how they had chatted about “the happy moments; the happy times we spent together”, Bird’s voice broken as he said he believed Parkinson understood his life was “coming to the end”.
Bird wept however demanded continuing, informing Patrick Maguire, the