Brian Johnston Brian Johnston Brian Alexander Johnston (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994. Born at the Old Rectory, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the youngest of four children (elder siblings were Anne, Michael and Christopher). His paternal grandfather, Reginald Eden Johnston, had been Governor of the Bank of England between 1909 and 1911. The World War II airborne division commander Frederick 'Boy' Browning was his first cousin. On 27 August 1922,
New Zealand cricket team in South Africa in 1994–95 sacked later in the season following a domestic season which "degenerated into a series of traumas" and the tour manager, Mike Sandlant, and coach Geoff Howarth both left their posts as a result of their handling of the team during the tour. The tour has been called the "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll" and is considered to have had a major influence on the ways in which New Zealand Cricket administered the international side for years ahead. The tour immediately followed New Zealand's involvement in the Wills World Series in India in October 1994, the majority of the team