Cricket
From Staff and Wire Reports
John Arlott, 77, who symbolized cricket for millions of radio listeners around the world, died Saturday at his home on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, off the coast of France, according to his son, Tim. A cause of death was not given.
Arlott broadcast cricket for the British Broadcasting Corp. from 1946 to 1980. He never lost the distinctive rough, throaty accent of his native Hampshire, which caused a BBC official to tell him in 1948: “You have an interesting mind, but a vulgar voice.”
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