Wyatt, whose mother is Bird’s sister, said “memorable” photos – such as those from Bird’s 70th and 80th birthdays and those taken at Buckingham Palace when Bird picked up his OBE – would remain in the family.<\/p>\n
Despite the two honours, Wyatt said Bird wished he had been knighted.<\/p>\n
“That was his wish. I think he should have been, but there we go,” she added.<\/p>\n
A year on from his death, Wyatt is now planning to honour one of Bird’s dying wishes and put his ashes inside the commemorative statue in Barnsley.<\/p>\n
“There’s only one Dickie Bird, I don’t think there will be another.<\/p>\n
“He was a lovely person, I went up to clean for him and took him meals. He was still down to earth, a Barnsley man.<\/p>\n
“I’m just so proud, he put so much into his umpiring career and he was the best in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyatt, whose mother is Bird’s sister, said “memorable” photos – such as those from Bird’s 70th and 80th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-809828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}