John Arlott

Leslie Thomas John Arlott (25 February 1914 – 14 December 1991) was an English journalist, hymn writer, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.

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• Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games.
  • Quoted in The Guardian Book of Cricket (1986).

• God, whose farm is all creation,
  take the gratitude we give;
  take the finest of our harvest,
  crops we grow that all may live.
  • From various hymnals.