Henry Blofeld is an English sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.
He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and has authored eight books to date.
Blofeld, 77 today, was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2003.
Although his injuries curtailed his own cricketing career, Blofeld did play 16 first-class matches for Cambridge University during 1958 and 1959.
The 1958 side was skippered by future England captain Ted Dexter and his first victim on his debut for Cambridge against Kent, was also another future England captain, Colin Cowdrey, whom he caught off Dexter’s bowling.
1956: Paolo Rossi, former Italy striker and 1982 World Cup winner (59)
1971: Moin Khan, Pakistan team manager and former international captain (44)
1979: Lote Tuqiri, dual-code international wing for Australia, formerly of Leicester and Leinster (36)
1988: Juan Martin Del Potro, Argentinian winner of the 2009 US Open (27)
