Squeezing the Orange

The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as "Blowers," tells his colourful life story. Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE, nicknamed "Blowers" by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. His distinctively rich, cut glass voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on and off the pitch, have made him a household name, not only in Britain but around the world, wherever cricket is played. Blowers has been close the the heart of the game for over fifty years and his career has taken him to the far corners of the earth. This autobiography, stuffed to the gunwhales with delicious anecdotes, brings his astonishingly colourful story bang up to date.

Humor & Entertainment

Henry Blofeld

Radio

Blue Door

[*Read by the author - Henry Blofeld] Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, nicknamed ''Blowers'' by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. His distinctively rich, cut-glass voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on and off the pitch, have made him a household name, not only in Britain but around the world, wherever cricket is played. Blowers has been close to the heart of the game for over fifty years, and his career has taken him to the far corners of the earth. Stuffed to the gunwales with delicious anecdotes, this autobiography brings his astonishingly colorful story bang up to date.

Squeezing the Orange: Life's Great Adventure--and the Cricket Too!

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Publishing

Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, nicknamed ""Blowers"" by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. His distinctively rich, cut-glass voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on and off the pitch, have made him a household name, not only in Britain but around the world, wherever cricket is played. Blowers has been close the heart of the game for over fifty years, and his career has taken him to the far corners of the earth. Stuffed to the gunwales with delicious anecdotes, this autobiography brings his astonishingly colorful story bang up to date.

HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Audio

Beginning with England's disastrous start in 1984, when they lost the series in New Zealand and Pakistan for the first time,this book provides an assessment of the state of cricket as well as a collection of anecdotes about the players. players.

My Dear Old Thing

Stanley Paul

Physical description; xiv, 335 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Subjects; Cricket players. - Biography. Cricket players - Anecdotes.

Cricket's Great Entertainers

Sports & Outdoors

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

As a widely respected cricket historian, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game, and also a writer with a great sense of fun, Henry Blofeld is the ideal man to select the great characters of cricket who have livened up the sport. We learn of the exploits of the legendary Ian Botham, a man who made up his own rules and has been at the centre of controversy on countless occasions; Garry Sobers, an immensely popular all-round great; and Dennis Lillee, the temperamental fast bowler who once held up a game with a tantrum when ordered to change his aluminium bat. Henry Blofeld regales us with marvellous - sometimes mischievous - stories to add to the "Boy's Own" nature of the book, and highlights those players who would make cricket lovers cancel their appointments to see them, even on a cold April day.

Coronet

Caught Short of The Boundary and Other Tall Stories

Star

Best of Blowers

Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books

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Books by Henry Blofeld

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Squeezing the Orange

Squeezing the Orange: Life's Great Adventure--and the Cricket Too!

Squeezing the Orange: Life's Great Adventure--and the Cricket Too!

My Dear Old Thing

Cricket's Great Entertainers

Cricket's Great Entertainers

Caught Short of The Boundary and Other Tall Stories

Best of Blowers