Eight of those nine matches were played against the full strength of England and the other against a very fine Australian side. The grim reaper finally caught up with Crisp two years after he got back from Australia and he died in England in March 1994. Apparently his estate consisted of just one investment, england football top a betting slip for a £20 punt on the upcoming Grand National. He got plenty of starts, and averaged 29.37, but his highest score was 56. In the famous summer of 1981 he reached fifty four times, england kit but never passed 59. A tendency to pad up to balls that were too straight for taking that risk against and to play the then highly unusual reverse sweep could on occasion exasperate.