Blair was a fast bowler who was never quite able to carry his enormous success for Wellington in the Plunket Shield over into the Test arena.

[5] Blair holds the record for the lowest career batting average by a Test player who scored a 50 in an innings, with 6.75.

In the late 1990s, Blair was coach of the Zimbabwe domestic first class team Matabeleland that competed for the Logan Cup.

In December 1953, Blair, playing for New Zealand against South Africa at Johannesburg, received news that his fiancée, Nerissa Love, had been killed in the Tangiwai railway disaster on Christmas Eve.

In the event, however, he appeared at the crease at the fall of the ninth wicket to join Bert Sutcliffe, who had already started to walk off the field.