why the city produced an unusual proportion of New Zealand's Test cricketers in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leslie Townsend died in Nelson in February 1993 at the age of 89. References External links 1903 births 1993 deaths English cricketers England Test cricketers Auckland cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year People from Long Eaton Cricketers from Derbyshire Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Players cricketers North v South cricketers Northumberland cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers