despite his efforts as skipper, and amassing over 30,000 runs in his career. Simpson scored 64 centuries in all. He topped the national batting averages in 1962, with 867 runs at 54.18, and retired after the 1963 season. After retiring from playing cricket, Simpson served on the Nottinghamshire committee and was a director of Gunn and Moore. In the 1970s Simpson moved to Scunthorpe where he became the president of Nuform Sports Cricket Club and occasionally played for them in charity and friendly matches, he remained president until the club folded in 1994. On the death of Alec Bedser on 4 April 2010, Simpson became the oldest surviving England Test cricketer. References External links 1920 births 2013 deaths Royal Air Force airmen Military personnel from Nottingham England Test cricketers English cricketers of 1946 to 1968 English cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Nottinghamshire cricket captains Europeans cricketers Commonwealth XI cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year Cricketers from Nottingham Sindh cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen cricketers North v South cricketers People educated at Nottingham High School Royal Air Force pilots of World War II Gentlemen of England cricketers People from Sherwood, Nottingham Cricketers from Nottinghamshire H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers T. N. Pearce's XI cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club South African Touring Team cricketers