John Kay (cricket journalist)

John Kay (12 January 1910 – 16 February 1999)[1] was a British cricket correspondent for the Manchester Evening News from the end of the Second World War to 1975 and for the Brighton Argus.

He wrote that d'Oliveira was surprised to see white people serving him in restaurants and doing menial work.

Kay's prose style was colourful and he could be critical, as evidenced by these two examples from Ashes to Hassett: All Australia honoured Hutton as the world's best batsman, and never did a man play harder or more successfully on his country's behalf…One man cannot make a cricket team, but Len Hutton did the next best thing in Australia last winter.

Superb in craftsmanship, magnificent in the hour of stress, veritably a giant among all batsmen and worthy of ranking with such famous names as Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Hammond ... they were masters of all they surveyed.

Then it is a strip of turf with thousands of demons prancing up and down ... at Brisbane only a Hutton could stay, let alone score runs.