A cricket fan has been knocked for six after discovering his long-lost dad is a famous US boxing commentator - putting him in line for a reported £200m fortune. Simon Edwards, a Hitchin Town FC steward and Letchworth cricket player, who lives with his adoptive parents in Hertfordshire, found out Bob Sheridan - nicknamed "The Colonel" - was his birth father after tracking down extended family in Galway, Ireland.
The pair are now in touch regularly and his celebrity father - who has presented thousands of fights, including the October 1974 contest between the late Muhammad Ali and George Foreman - is flying him out to Las Vegas this summer so he can join in his birthday celebrations.
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