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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.”
John Arlott
“God, whose farm is all creation,
take the gratitude we give;
take the finest of our harvest,
crops we grow that all may live.”
John Arlott
“We've got a freaker! We’ve got a freaker down the wicket now. Not very shapely and it's masculine. And I would think it's seen the last of its cricket for the day. The police are mustered, so are the cameramen, and Greg Chappell. And now he's being embraced by a blond policeman. And this may be his last public appearance but what a splendid one.
He's now being marched down in the final exhibition past at least 8,000 people in the Mound Stand, some of whom perhaps have never seen anything quite like this before. And he's getting a very good reception.”
John Arlott

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John Arlott on Margaret Hughes 2 quotes

“The Australia of her book is not merely a setting for cricket but a place of interest, of fun and of new impressions”
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John Arlott on Neville Cardus

“He has made a contribution to cricket which no one can ever duplicate. It may be true that cricket was always an art, but no one until Neville Cardus presented it as an art with all an artist's perception.”
John Arlott

About John Arlott

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.