Initially a cricket correspondent at the Mail, from 1972 Wooldridge wrote a weekly column which spread to other sports.

The four cricket correspondents are as varied in style and type as the bowlers in the Pakistan attack.

Daily Telegraph schools and club cricket correspondent since early 1970s, sub-editor since 1968.

He wrote for the Daily Telegraph for 32 years, and was their cricket correspondent from 1975 until his retirement in 1981.

On his retur,n he retired to take up an appointment as the cricket correspondent of The Sunday Times.

He became cricket correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in 1946, remaining in that post until 1975.

He became a sports writer for The Observer in 1950 and became the paper's cricket correspondent in 1953, the same year his son was born.

During this time James took a job as cricket correspondent with the Manchester Guardian.

In 1933 he became cricket correspondent for the Morning Post.

Arlott joined The Guardian in 1968 as chief cricket correspondent, where he would stay until 1980.