The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as “Blowers”, tells his colourful life story.

Delivered in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE, nicknamed “Blowers” by the past due Brian Johnston, is most beneficial referred to as a cricket commentator for Check Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports activities Extra. His distinctively wealthy, cut glass tone of voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on / off the pitch, possess made him a household name, not merely in Britain but all over the world, wherever cricket is usually played. Blowers continues to be close the the center of the overall game for over fifty years and his career has taken him to the far corners of the planet earth. This autobiography, stuffed towards the gunwhales with delicious anecdotes, brings his astonishingly colourful story bang current.