John Arlott
English sports commentator and writer (1914-1991)
Leslie Thomas John Arlott (25 February 1914 – 14 December 1991) was an English journalist, hymn writer, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.
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- Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games.
- Quoted in The Guardian Book of Cricket (1986).
- God, whose farm is all creation,
take the gratitude we give;
take the finest of our harvest,
crops we grow that all may live.- From various hymnals.