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,
John Kay (cricket journalist) John Kay (cricket journalist) John Kay (born 1909 or 1910, died 16 February 1999, aged 89) was a British cricket correspondent for the "Manchester Evening News" from the end of the Second World War to 1975 and for the "Brighton Argus". He toured Australia for the 1950-51 Ashes series for the "Manchester Evening News" and wrote several cricketing books, including "Ashes to Hassett" (1951) and "Cricket in the Leagues" (1970). He played for Middleton in the Central Lancashire League and when Basil d'Oliveira emigrated from South Africa in 1960 because Apartheid banned him from playing first-class cricket he arranged for