MARTIN JOHNSON

It was one of Henry Blofeld’s fellow Test Match Special commentators who once said of him, fondly it should be said, that listeners tuning in when Blowers was on the microphone were always guaranteed a colourful description of the match. Albeit not necessarily a description of the match that was actually taking place.
Henry, who is finally retiring this summer after 45 years of seamlessly combining cricket commentary with pigeon spotting, is not terrifically good at names, hence the fact that everyone – possibly even Mrs Blofeld when he espies a familiar fac...