Michael Melford (journalist)

Michael Austin Melford (born 9 November 1916 at St John's Wood, London; died 18 April 1999 at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire) was a sports journalist, primarily writing on cricket but also on rugby union and track and field.

From 1946 to 1950 he had been the athletics correspondent for The Observer, a position he subsequently held for a while at the Telegraph, covering the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 and in Rome four years later.

Melford joined the Royal Artillery in 1939 at the start of World War II, and served in Egypt, Tunisia, Italy and the Balkans.

[4] Wisden wrote of his time as a journalist: "Contemporaries valued him highly for sound, sympathetic judgment, good companionship and the odd decent racing tip."

After retiring from day-to-day cricket reporting, Melford was the ghost writer of Peter May's autobiography A Game Enjoyed.