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Leslie Thomas John Arlott, OBE (25 February 1914 – 14 December 1991) was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. [1]

178 relations: Alderney, Alf Gover, Alistair Cooke, Andrew Young (poet), Any Questions?, Apartheid, Arthur Rubinstein, Association football, Australia national cricket team, Basil D'Oliveira, Basingstoke, BBC, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Third Programme, BBC World Service, Bella figlia dell’amore, Benjamin Britten, Brian Johnston, Burl Ives, Canterbury, Cape Coloureds, Cecil Paris, Centenary Test, Central Lancashire Cricket League, Channel Islands, Charles Kortright, Cheriton, Hampshire, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Clive Lloyd, Connoisseur, County Ground, Southampton, Cricket, David Gower, David Rayvern Allen, David Sheppard, Denis Howell, Desert Island Discs, Don Cossacks, Don Shepherd, Donny Davies, Doug Wright, Dylan Thomas, E. W. Swanton, Edgar Oldroyd, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Edric Connor, Emrys Davies, ..., England cricket team, English cricket team in South Africa in 1948–49, Epping (UK Parliament constituency), Fern Hill, First-class cricket, Foggy Dew (English song), Frank Keating (journalist), Frank Tyson, Fred Trueman, Freddie Brown (cricketer), Geoffrey Boycott, George Brown (cricketer, born 1887), George Mann (cricketer), George VI, Gerald Finzi, Gillian Reynolds, Giuseppe Verdi, Greta Keller, Hampshire Constabulary, Hampshire County Cricket Club, Harvest festival, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Henry Martyn (cricketer), Hymn, Ian Botham, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, In dulci jubilo, Indian cricket team in England in 1946, International Cricket Council, Irving Rosenwater, Jack Hobbs, Jack Newman (English cricketer), Jim Laker, John Betjeman, John Langridge, John Marshall, Journalism, Kalinka (song), Keith Miller, Ken Ablack, Kenneth Adam, Kent County Cricket Club, Kim Hughes, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Learie Constantine, Len Hutton, Leo Harrison, Liberal Party (UK), List of cricket commentators, Lord Lovel, Lord's, Ludwig van Beethoven, Manchester United F.C., Marylebone Cricket Club, Maurice Hallam, Medium wave, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middleton Cricket Club, Mike Brearley, Munich air disaster, Nelson Mandela, Neville Cardus, New Alresford, New Year Honours, News Chronicle, Norman Yardley, Old Alresford, Open University, Order of the British Empire, Park Prewett Hospital, Peter May (cricketer), Peter Sainsbury, Police ranks of the United Kingdom, Pro40, Professional Cricketers' Association, Radio Academy, Ramachandra Guha, Red Star Belgrade, Rex Alston, Richard Dimbleby, Rigoletto, Ropley, Roy Plomley, Sicily, Sotheby's, Southampton, Sports commentator, Sports Journalists' Association, Streaking, Surrey County Cricket Club, Sussex County Cricket Club, Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven), Ted Dexter, Test cricket, Test Match Special, The Ashes, The Cambridge Union, The Cricket Society, The Evening News (London newspaper), The Guardian, The Observer, The Oval, The Times, The Yetties, These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You), Thomas Wass, Tichborne, Tom Cartwright, Trevor Bailey, Trevor McDonald, Tufty Mann, UEFA Champions League, University of Southampton, Victory in Europe Day, Vijay Merchant, Viv Richards, Wes Hall, West Indies, West Indies cricket team, Western Daily Press, Wilf Wooller, Wilfred Rhodes, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Worcester, Worcestershire County Cricket Club, World Series Cricket, Yugoslavia, 1980 Gillette Cup. Expand index (128 more) »

Alderney

Alderney (Aurigny; Auregnais: Aoeur'gny) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.

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Alf Gover

Alfred Richard Gover MBE (29 February 1908 – 7 October 2001) was an English Test cricketer.

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Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American journalist, television personality and broadcaster.

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Andrew Young (poet)

Andrew John Young (29 April 1885 – 25 November 1971) was a Scottish poet and clergyman although recognition of his poetry was slow to develop.

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Any Questions?

Any Questions? is a topical debate radio programme in the United Kingdom that has been broadcast since 1948.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Basil D'Oliveira

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011) was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair.

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Basingstoke

Basingstoke is the largest town in the modern county of Hampshire (Southampton and Portsmouth being cities.) It is situated in south central England, and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Third Programme

The BBC Third Programme was a national radio service produced and broadcast by the BBC between 1946 and 1970.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in over 30 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays.

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Bella figlia dell’amore

(Beautiful daughter of love) is a vocal quartet from act 3 (No. 18) of Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Brian Johnston

Brian Alexander Johnston CBE, MC (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter.

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Burl Ives

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.

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Cape Coloureds

In Southern Africa, Cape Coloureds is the name given to an ethnic group composed primarily of persons of mixed race.

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Cecil Paris

Cecil Gerard Alexander Paris (20 August 1911 in Kirkee, British India – 4 April 1998 in Winchester, Hampshire) was an English first-class cricketer.

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Centenary Test

Centenary Test refers to two matches of Test cricket played between the English cricket team and the Australian cricket team, the first in 1977 and the second in 1980.

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Central Lancashire Cricket League

The Central Lancashire Cricket League (CLCL) is a fifteen team cricket league, traditionally based in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.

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Charles Kortright

Charles Jesse Kortright (9 January 1871 at Furze Hall, Fryerning, Ingatestone, Essex – 12 December 1952 at Brookstreet, South Weald, Essex) was an English cricketer, who played for Essex and Free Foresters.

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Cheriton, Hampshire

Cheriton Is a village and civil parish near Alresford in Hampshire, England.

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Choir of King's College, Cambridge

The King's College Choir is a British choir.

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Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, MBE (20 January 1945 – 1 January 2013), also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of the MCC.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long-term breathing problems and poor airflow.

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Clive Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 31 August 1944) is a former West Indies cricketer.

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Connoisseur

A connoisseur (French traditional (pre-1835) spelling of connaisseur, from Middle-French connoistre, then connaître meaning "to be acquainted with" or "to know somebody/something.") is a person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts, cuisines, or an expert judge in matters of taste.

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County Ground, Southampton

The County Ground in Southampton, England was a cricket and football ground.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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David Gower

David Ivon Gower OBE (born 1 April 1957) is a former English cricketer who became the captain of the England cricket team during the 1980s.

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David Rayvern Allen

David Rayvern Allen (5 February 1938 – 9 October 2014) was a cricket writer and historian, as well as a radio producer and presenter, and a speaker.

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David Sheppard

David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool (6 March 1929 – 5 March 2005) was the high-profile Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth.

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Denis Howell

Denis Herbert Howell, Baron Howell, PC (4 September 1923 – 19 April 1998) was a British Labour Party politician.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Don Cossacks

Don Cossacks (Донские казаки) are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don.

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Don Shepherd

Donald John Shepherd (12 August 1927 – 18 August 2017) was a Welsh cricketer, who played for Glamorgan.

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Donny Davies

Harry Donald Davies (13 March 1892 – 6 February 1958) was an English first-class cricketer, amateur footballer and journalist.

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Doug Wright

Doug Wright (born 1962) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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E. W. Swanton

Ernest William Swanton (11 February 1907 – 22 January 2000) was an English journalist and author, chiefly known for being a cricket writer and commentator under his initials, E. W. Swanton.

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Edgar Oldroyd

Edgar Oldroyd (1 October 1888 – 29 December 1964) was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1919 and 1931.

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Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England.

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Edric Connor

Edric Esclus Connor (2 August 1913 – 13 October 1968) was a Caribbean singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Trinidad.

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Emrys Davies

David Emrys Davies (27 June 1904 – 10 November 1975) was a Glamorgan cricketer and in his later years a Test cricket umpire.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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English cricket team in South Africa in 1948–49

The England national cricket team toured South Africa in the 1948-49 season.

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Epping (UK Parliament constituency)

Epping was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 to 1974.

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Fern Hill

Fern Hill (1945) is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in Deaths and Entrances.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Foggy Dew (English song)

"Foggy Dew" or "Foggy, Foggy Dew" is an English folk song.

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Frank Keating (journalist)

Francis Vincent "Frank" Keating (4 October 1937 – 25 January 2013) was an English sports journalist and author, who was best known for his regular columns in The Guardian newspaper.

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Frank Tyson

Frank Holmes Tyson (6 June 1930 – 27 September 2015) was an England cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960.

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Fred Trueman

Frederick Sewards Trueman, OBE (6 February 19311 July 2006) was an English cricketer, mainly active from 1948 to 1968, who played for Yorkshire and England.

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Freddie Brown (cricketer)

Frederick Richard Brown CBE (16 December 1910 – 24 July 1991)Bateman, pp.

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Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born 21 October 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer.

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George Brown (cricketer, born 1887)

George Brown (6 October 1887 at Cowley, Oxford, England – 3 December 1964 at Winchester, Hampshire, England) was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1921 to 1923.

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George Mann (cricketer)

Francis George Mann, (6 September 1917 – 8 August 2001) was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex and England.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Gerald Finzi

Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer.

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Gillian Reynolds

Gillian Reynolds (née Morton; born 15 November 1935) is a British radio critic, journalist and broadcaster.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Greta Keller

Margaretha "Greta" Keller (February 8, 1903 – November 11, 1977) was a cabaret singer and actress.

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Hampshire Constabulary

Hampshire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in South East England.

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Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Harvest festival

A harvest festival is an annual celebration that occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region.

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Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the national anthem of Wales.

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Henry Martyn (cricketer)

Henry Martyn (16 July 1877 – 8 August 1928) was an English cricketer who made 97 first-class appearances for Oxford University and Somerset between 1899 and 1908.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Ian Botham

Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is an English former cricketer and current cricket commentator.

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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi

Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan, sometimes I. A. K. Pataudi (16 March 1910 – 5 January 1952) was the 8th Nawab of Pataudi and the captain of the India national cricket team for the tour to England in 1946.

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In dulci jubilo

In dulci jubilo ("In sweet rejoicing") is a traditional Christmas carol.

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Indian cricket team in England in 1946

The Indian national cricket team toured England in the 1946 season and played 29 first-class fixtures with 11 wins, 4 defeats and 14 draws.

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International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Irving Rosenwater

Irving Rosenwater (11 September 1932 – 30 January 2006) was an English cricket researcher and author whose best-known work was Sir Donald Bradman - A Biography (1978).

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Jack Hobbs

Sir John Berry Hobbs (16 December 1882 – 21 December 1963), always known as Jack Hobbs, was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches between 1908 and 1930.

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Jack Newman (English cricketer)

John Alfred 'Jack' Newman (born 12 November 1884 at Southsea, Hampshire; died 21 December 1973 at Groote Schuur, Cape Town, South Africa) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire.

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Jim Laker

James Charles Laker (9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey) from 1946 to 1959 and represented England in 46 test matches.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

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John Langridge

John George Langridge MBE (10 February 1910 – 27 June 1999) was a cricketer who played for Sussex.

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John Marshall

John James Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American politician and the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835.

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Journalism

Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events.

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Kalinka (song)

"Kalinka" (Калинка) is a Russian song written in 1860 by the composer and folklorist Ivan Larionov and first performed in Saratov as part of a theatrical entertainment that he had composed.

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Keith Miller

Keith Ross Miller, (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an Australian test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II.

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Ken Ablack

Robert Kenneth Ablack (5 January 1919 – 15 December 2010) was a Trinidadian broadcaster and first class cricketer.

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Kenneth Adam

Kenneth Adam (1 March 1908 – 18 October 1978), was an English journalist and broadcasting executive, who from 1957 until 1961 served as the Controller of the BBC Television Service.

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Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Kim Hughes

Kimberley John Hughes (born 26 January 1954) is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire.

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Learie Constantine

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, (21 September 19011 July 1971) was a West Indian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer.

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Len Hutton

Sir Leonard Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was an English cricketer who played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955.

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Leo Harrison

Leo Harrison (8 June 1922 – 12 October 2016) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1939-1966.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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List of cricket commentators

This is a list of media commentators and writers on the sport of cricket.

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Lord Lovel

Lord Lovel is one of the ballads anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century, (Roud 49) and exists in several variants.

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Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.

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Maurice Hallam

Maurice Raymond Hallam (10 September 1931 — 1 January 2000) was an English first-class cricketer for Leicestershire.

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Medium wave

Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting.

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Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Middleton Cricket Club

Middleton Cricket Club, based in Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester are an English Cricket team currently playing in the Central Lancashire League.

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Mike Brearley

John Michael Brearley OBE (born 28 April 1942) is a retired English first-class cricketer who captained Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England.

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Munich air disaster

The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958 when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Neville Cardus

Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE (3 April 188828 February 1975) was an English writer and critic.

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New Alresford

New Alresford or simply Alresford is a small town and civil parish in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England.

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New Year Honours

The New Year Honours is a part of the British honours system, with New Year's Day, 1 January, being marked by naming new members of orders of chivalry and recipients of other official honours.

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News Chronicle

The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper.

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Norman Yardley

Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley (19 March 1915 – 3 October 1989) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler.

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Old Alresford

Old Alresford is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Park Prewett Hospital

Park Prewett Hospital, also known as Park Prewett Mental Hospital, was a psychiatric hospital northwest of Basingstoke, in the county of Hampshire in England, which operated from 1917 until 1997.

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Peter May (cricketer)

Peter Barker Howard May, CBE (31 December 1929 – 27 December 1994) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey, Cambridge University and England.

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Peter Sainsbury

Peter James Sainsbury (13 June 1934 – 12 July 2014) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1954 to 1976 and the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1955 to 1960.

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Police ranks of the United Kingdom

Most of the police forces of the United Kingdom use a standardised set of ranks, with a slight variation in the most senior ranks for the Metropolitan Police Service and City of London Police.

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Pro40

The NatWest Pro40 League was a one-day cricket league for first-class cricket counties in England and Wales.

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Professional Cricketers' Association

The Professional Cricketers' Association is the representative body of past and present first-class cricketers in England and Wales, founded in 1967 by former England fast bowler Fred Rumsey (when it was known as the Cricketers' Association).

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Radio Academy

The Radio Academy is a registered charity dedicated to 'the encouragement, recognition and promotion of excellence in UK broadcasting and audio production'.

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history.

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Red Star Belgrade

Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда), commonly known in English as Red Star Belgrade (Црвена звезда Београд / Crvena zvezda Beograd) or simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club.

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Rex Alston

Arthur Rex Alston (2 July 1901 – 8 September 1994) was a leading sports commentator for BBC radio on cricket, rugby union, athletics and tennis from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.

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Richard Dimbleby

Frederick Richard Dimbleby, CBE (25 May 1913 – 22 December 1965) was an English journalist and broadcaster, who became the BBC’s first war correspondent, and then its leading TV news commentator.

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Ropley

Ropley is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Roy Plomley

Francis Roy Plomley, (20 January 1914 – 28 May 1985) was an English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British founded, American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer, sportscaster or play-by-play announcer) gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense.

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Sports Journalists' Association

The Sports Journalists' Association is an association for British sports journalists.

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Streaking

Streaking is the act of running naked through a public place as a prank, a dare, for publicity or an act of protest.

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Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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Ted Dexter

Edward Ralph "Ted" Dexter, (born 15 May 1935) is a former England international cricketer.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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Test Match Special

Test Match Special (also known as TMS) is a British sports radio programme, originally, as its name implies, dealing exclusively with Test cricket matches, but currently covering any professional cricket.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia.

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The Cambridge Union

The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to as "The Cambridge Union", is a debating and free speech society in Cambridge, England, and the largest society at the University of Cambridge.

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The Cricket Society

The Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London.

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The Evening News (London newspaper)

The Evening News, earlier styled as The Evening News, was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Yetties

The Yetties (John (Bonny) Sartin, Pete Shutler, and Mac McCulloch) were an English folk music group who took their name from the Dorset village of Yetminster, their childhood home.

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These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" is a standard with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Jack Strachey, both Englishmen.

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Thomas Wass

Thomas George Wass (26 December 1873 – 27 October 1953), known as Tom Wass, was a Nottinghamshire bowler who is best remembered, along with Hallam, for bowling that gave Nottinghamshire a brilliant County Championship win in 1907.

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Tichborne

Tichborne is a village and civil parish east of Winchester in Hampshire, England.

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Tom Cartwright

Thomas William Cartwright (22 July 1935 – 30 April 2007) was an English cricketer.

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Trevor Bailey

Trevor Edward Bailey CBE (3 December 1923 – 10 February 2011) was an England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster.

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Trevor McDonald

Sir Trevor McDonald, (born George McDonald; 16 August 1939) is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with ITN.

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Tufty Mann

Norman Bertram Fleetwood "Tufty" Mann (28 December 1920 – 31 July 1952) was a South African cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1947 to 1951.

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UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs.

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University of Southampton

The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a research university located in Southampton, England.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, celebrated on May 8, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

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Vijay Merchant

Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant, real name Vijay Madhavji Thakersey (12 October 1911 – 27 October 1987) was an Indian cricketer.

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Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv Richards, is a former Antiguan cricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and international levels.

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Wes Hall

Sir Wesley Winfield Hall (born 12 September 1937) is a Barbadian former cricketer and politician.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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West Indies cricket team

The West Indies cricket team, colloquially known as and (since June 2017) officially branded as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.

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Western Daily Press

The Western Daily Press is a regional newspaper covering parts of South West England, mainly Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset as well as the metropolitan areas of Bath and North East Somerset and the Bristol area.

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Wilf Wooller

Wilfred Wooller (20 November 1912 – 10 March 1997) was a Welsh cricketer, rugby union footballer, cricket administrator and journalist.

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Wilfred Rhodes

Wilfred Rhodes (29 October 1877 – 8 July 1973) was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930.

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.

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Worcester

Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.

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Worcestershire County Cricket Club

Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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World Series Cricket

World Series Cricket (WSC) was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, Nine Network.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

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1980 Gillette Cup

The 1980 Gillette Cup was the eighteenth and final Gillette Cup before its renaming to the NatWest Trophy in 1981.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arlott

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