Tributes have been paid after the death of a 'legendary' cricket scorer who didn’t miss a single league match for his club in 40 years. Richard M White was even named in a special 'Local Heroes' edition of the Daily Mirror. His dedication to Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club was marked when they named their scorebox after him. Richard died aged just 55 last month. He scored his first league match for the Hertfordshire club as a 15-year-old schoolboy in 1984. 'Richard was a huge part of Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club for four decades. It is difficult to imagine what the club will be like without him there this summer,'said chairman and long-serving player James Bovaird. 'His passion for the game and for our club was absolutely evident to all. This was demonstrated by his amazing ability to remember a huge number of statistics and individual performances going back years. Richard was made a life member of the club over a decade ago, in recognition of his contribution. Then last year, to celebrate his 40 years of uninterrupted service, we named the scorebox after him, which although he was initially slightly embarrassed by, I think in time he was actually rightly proud of.' Danny Wilson, who played for Essex before scoring more than 15,000 runs for Sawbridgeworth, with 24 centuries and played in their Herts Cup win of 2003, said: 'No one felt a win or loss more than Whitey – and that cup winning team of 2003 had a very special bond, he was a big part of that. Those were special times for us all and we all cherish the memories. Whitey will be forever our 12th man. His knowledge and passion for the club game was incredible.” As well as Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club, Richard, from Harlow, Essex, supported Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds United, and was a keen darts follower. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of chart music which resulted in more than one appearance on former BBC Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce’s PopMaster quiz. And he once even scored a match alongside the iconic Bill Frindall - who was nicknamed “The Bearded Wonder” when he worked Radio Four’s Test Match Special programme. Richard leaves his mother Carol and sister Catherine.His father, John, long-time professor of viola at the Royal Academy of Music and founder violist of the Harlow-based Alberni Quartet, died in December 2013.