Peter Hayter enjoys an afternoon in Hampshire sharing celebratory reminiscences with a journalistic legend

Doyen Down Under: John Woodcock takes a break from reporting for The Times on England’s Ashes tour of 1965/6
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In the week after England’s magnificent Test match against India at Edgbaston reminded us that the skills and traditions of the longest and oldest form of the game are so worth fighting to preserve, who better to connect with than John Woodcock, the doyen of cricket writers, who has seen every other attempt to undermine...