Radio times
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
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Speaking of commentary, it's time to focus on those who said the right things at the right time. Ted Corbett remembers John Arlott, the man chiefly responsible for young schoolboys cycling home furiously to grab the radio and listen to his analysis and curse if the batteries went dead. Arlott will always be a hard man to emulate. Read the full piece in Sportstar.
His Hampshire burr had become compulsory material for every mimic good or bad and round the world — in those days BBC could be heard everywhere — those in love with cricket arranged their lives around their need to hear him speak.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo