John Arlott Quotes

Leslie Thomas John Arlott, OBE was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was also a poet and wine connoisseur. With his poetic phraseology, he became a cricket commentator noted for his "wonderful gift for evoking cricketing moments" by the BBC. Wikipedia

✵ 25. February 1914 – 14. December 1991

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John Arlott Quotes

“Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games.”

John Arlott

Quoted in The Guardian Book of Cricket (1986).

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“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

From various hymnals.

God , Gratitude

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