A right-handed fast-medium bowler, Blenkiron took over 350 wickets in the first-class and one day game in a decade-long career spanning from 1964 to 1974.
A useful lower-order right-hand batsman, he also scored 1,467 runs with two half centuries.
[1] His son, Darren Blenkiron, did however play for Durham – and the England U-19 Test team – as a left-handed batsman between 1994 and 1996.
[2] Blenkiron subsequently returned to Durham, where he sold cricket equipment for many years.
[3] This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1940s is a stub.