"Bob is a legend of the game," said Derbyshire chairman Chris Grant.
He is currently the eighth most successful Test wicketkeeper of all time.
A tale of four Bs: Bruce French, Bill Athey, Bob Taylor and Bobby Parks.
Bob Taylor’s 1,649 First-Class victims behind the wickets remains a world record.
Gundappa Viswanath, in a sterling display of sportsmanship, recalled Bob Taylor after the batsman had been wrongly declared out by the umpire. However, with Ian Botham’s multi-faceted genius blooming at the other end, it cost India the Golden Jubilee Test.
By Kushan Sarkar He set the precedence by calling back Bob Taylor 31 years ago during the historic 'Jubilee Test' in Mumbai and no wonder Gundappa Viswanath is proud about Mahendra Singh Dhoni's gesture of deciding to call back Ian Bell at Nottingham yesterday.
By Kushan Sarkar
He set the precedence by calling back Bob Taylor 31 years ago during the historic 'Jubilee Test' in Mumbai and no wonder Gundappa Viswanath is proud about Mahendra Singh Dhoni's gesture of deciding to call back Ian Bell at Nottingham yesterday.
Dhoni is yet to be rated a high-quality Test match wicketkeeper.