Howard Marshall

Howard Marshall was a master of the spoken word. He earned a place in cricket history as the first BBC broadcaster to commentate reports of the game. He was an Authentic while at Oxford. He became well known to thousands of radio listeners for his descriptions of boxing, rugby football and events during the second world war in North Africa and Western Europe, including the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944. He also wrote cricket and rugby reports for "The Daily Telegraph" for several years.