Article published on wired868.com
“[Brian] Lara describes himself as ‘grateful for having had the opportunity to learn from Lenny Kirton,’ whom he remembers as ‘a good man’ but ‘very hard to please’. It was, he says, the coach’s way of ensuring that the talented teenager ‘keep a level head, be humble and keep working on my game’…”
Leonard Kirton, who spent much of his adult life coaching cricket and football at Harvard Club, was a very private man. So it seems like some kind of poetic justice that he would have departed for the Great Beyond early Thursday evening at a time when Covid-19 is driving the society into enforced privacy.
In keeping with the requirements of the pandemic currently sweeping the country and the world, no more than five persons will be allowed to congregate to bid him a final farewell. But had he had to script it, I imagine that he would have asked for no more.
