In his four seasons at Worcestershire, Johnson won runners-up medals in the 1972 John Player League and the 1973 Benson & Hedges Cup.

[2] In 1943 and 1944, Basil Johnson flew fifty war-time bombing missions in Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft for the Pathfinder (RAF) 156 squadron.

Johnson's grandfather, Thomas Tot Walsh, was a professional footballer who was a centre-forward for the Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace.

Johnson was educated at Queen's College, Nassau, Bahamas and the Seaford Court Preparatory School at Malvern Link, Worcestershire.

[3] In 1966, at age 13, Johnson was the first boy to score a century for Seaford Court Preparatory School.

Johnson was the first and (as yet) only boy to hit a straight six, a huge distance over the sight screen, into the adjoining field.

From 1969 onwards, he played several Second XI matches for Worcestershire County Cricket Club in his summer holidays.

In 1972, he topped the batting averages for the Young England Under-19 cricket team on a tour of the West Indies.

In June 1972, at age 18, Johnson made his first-class debut for Worcestershire in a drawn match against Oxford University.

In July 1972, Johnson took 7 for 57 for the Second XI against Warwickshire II and then was recalled to the firsts, where he remained for six games, three at first-class and three in List A.

In a John Player League one-day match, Johnson took two vital wickets, allowing Worcestershire to beat Nottinghamshire by 38 runs.

Johnson spent the remainder of the 1972 season on a tour of the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team.

He played 21 first-class games, scoring 475 runs at 20.65, including three half-centuries, and took 15 wickets, albeit at an average of 51.

During his innings, he told Basil D'Oliveira that his bat seemed to be middling the ball with exceptional power and sweet timing.

He dropped an easy caught-and-bowled catch from Asif Iqbal, and the wicketkeeper, Rodney Cass, missed a chance to stump Brian Luckhurst from Johnson's bowling.

In 1973, Johnson played in a John Player League 40-over one-day game for Worcestershire against Nottinghamshire at Dudley.

New Zealand made a large first innings total, with the opener, Glenn Turner, scoring 143.

Early in Turner's innings, Johnson bowled and Alan Ormrod unusually, dropped at slip.

As a result, Turner became the first man since World War II to score 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May.

Hutton meant that Johnson's high afro hair-style resembled the Golliwog trademark on the Robertson's jam jar labels.

Early in 1975, at age 21, Johnson announced his plan to leave the Worcestershire team in the following September to pursue an interest in journalism.

He did play for the Old Malvernians in The Cricketer Cup, a 55-overs per team knock-out competition for the Old Boys of Britain's thirty-two leading private schools.

The Old Malvernian winners' prize was a weekend trip to the sponsor, Moët et Chandon's vineyards in Epernay.

After leaving Worcestershire, Johnson played occasional games of cricket for club and charity teams.

From 1972, during the English county cricket off-season winter months, Johnson was employed as a trainee reporter on The Tribune newspaper in Nassau.

He worked at the Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo and studied at the Harlow College of Journalism in Essex.

In October 1976, he clashed with the Progressive Liberal Party leader, Prime Minister Lynden Pindling during the ZNS-TV radio programme, Contact.

In 1992, on the morning of election day, The Punch ran a headline predicting the Free National Movement win over Progressive Liberal Party by 32 seats to 17.