John Arlott

Rated by 22 man-crushers

• Really? I don't think either of those gentlemen is John Arlott -- Escalus
• Howard "Richie as a broadcaster is hard to beat, but as a ball-to-ball commentator, Ian Chappell is very good". "John Arlott also very good" -- The All-Rounders
• John Arlott: I'm retiring whilst they are still asking 'why is he going?' Rather than 'why doesn't he go?' -- Marcus Bull
• John Arlott likened Masood's run-up to 'Groucho Marx chasing a pretty waitress'. -- Pir Qasim
• John Arlott commentating at Lords on the 2nd test between West Indies and England, June 1957. view -- Rob Baker
• John Arlott eat your heart out. -- Russell Jackson
• "Le vin est une des grandes réussites de l'homme pour transformer un fruit périssable en quelque chose de permanent." (John Arlott) -- Richard Messier
• " is a game of the most terrifying stresses, with more about it than any other game I know." - John Arlott -- TheQuotableCricketer
• 'One day over limit cricket' - "the form of the game that spectators like most and the players least." John Arlott (1972) -- Declaration Game
• John Arlott as streaker escorted off pitch at Lords "And there must be some people who have never seen anything as big as this". So quick. -- Graham Perry
• "Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator" - John Arlott. -- Cricket
• Jul 27 1946 Dylan Thomas talks about Wilfred Owen in an edition of John Arlott's Book of Verse series for BBC radio -- Dylan Thomas News
• Wot...no John Arlott -- Bob Hawkins
• is no John Arlott -- Jonathan fearick
• And no one will surpass Hans Keller in the New Statesman, or John Arlott in The Guardian... -- Josephus
• 1980 - John Arlott, cricket commentator, retired at Lord's after 35 years of broadcasting for the BBC. -- John B Tawn
• People with commentator in their comment biog, who aren t John Arlott. -- Matt Owen
• Loving the cricket without the adverts every two overs. Takes me back to BBC commentary back in the day with John Arlott and Jim Laker! -- Selbs
• As John Arlott once remarked: We take life too lightly and sport too seriously. -- Andy Bell
• 'This is no longer funny its farcical' John Arlott, the Oval 1966 -- Phil Vellender
• Although first sight I thought it said John Arlott's Village Cricket, which I was slightly less excited about TBH. -- Aylwyn Scally
• Hi Listening to the great John Arlott on the rescued lost Desert Islands tapes sum gems on the list -- robert sharples

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