Celebration of ‘finest of all cricket writers’ John Woodcock0

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• August 10, 2026

Former England captain Michael Atherton has unveiled a plaque honouring the journalist remembered as “the finest of all cricket writers”, John Woodcock. Woodcock, who was chief cricket correspondent at The Times between 1954 and 1987 and was once described as “the poet laureate of cricket”, died in 2021. An event remembering Woodcock took place on