MCC spin bowler Michael Baer said he was ‘devastated’ by the news of Graham Dilley’s death.The former England fast bowler died yesterday at the age of 52 following a short illness and the MCC team were told yesterday morning before they travelled to the National Sports Centre to take on Bermuda in two Twenty20 matches.There was a moments silence before the first game as the two teams remembered a man who Baer called ‘one of the all time greats’.Dilley, who ran the MCC Academy at Loughbrough University, coached Baer when he was a student there and the two became close when Baer went on to captain the university side in his third year.“I was pretty gutted when I heard to be honest,” said Baer, “he (Dilley) helped me massively with my cricket and I captained the side in my third year. I had a pretty close relationship with him.“He was just a great bloke, always happy to help with any issues whether they were cricket related or not, he’s always there for you just a phone call away. I was pretty devastated to be honest.”Like the rest of the MCC team Baer has his own memories of Dilley and spent yesterday morning sharing them with friends and former team-mates who were equally affected by their former coach’s death.“I spoken to a few friends who I went to university with, and read the tributes on Facebook and Twitter and that sort of thing, everyone’s just full of praise for him,” Baer said. “The first time I met him was when I went to university and obviously he was a legend of the game, you heard all these stories about him, the fastest white man on earth, all these sorts of things.“In a period of great fast bowling, he was one of the all time greats, and if it hadn’t been for the injuries he could have been one of the very best.”