About Henry Blofeld
Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is an English retired sports journalist and broadcaster best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra. He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and is the author of eight books. Blofeld's family were landowners at Hoveton in Norfolk and he was the youngest of three siblings. Although his injuries curtailed his subsequent cricketing career, Blofeld did go on to play 16 first-class matches for Cambridge University during 1958 and 1959. His elder brother, Sir John Blofeld, became a High Court judge.
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