Henry Blofeld Cricketer

Henry Calthorpe Blofeld (born at Hoveton Home Farm, Norfolk on 23 September 1939) (nicknamed Blowers by the late Brian Johnston) is a sports journalist. He is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that was quintessentially Old Etonian in both style and substance. He also writes on cricket.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Blowers
Birth dateSeptember 23, 1939
Birth place
England , Norfolk

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Henry Blofeld on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6297/6297.html