He became cricket correspondent for "The Daily Telegraph" in 1946, remaining in that post until 1975. He was also editorial director of "The Cricketer" from 1967 to 1988. He toured Australia as a cricket correspondent seven times between 1946 and 1975, but never visited Pakistan to report on cricket, only reported on one Test match in India, and refused to visit South Africa from 1964 as a protest against "apartheid". His writing style was very spare and simple, reporting what happened and why, without the flourishes of Neville Cardus or John Arlott. John Warr once described it as being "halfway between the Ten Commandments and Enid Blyton". His radio commentary provided a contrast to the romanticism of Arlott.