[1] He co-ordinated the BBC's cricket coverage from every one of the Test-playing nations, and was also frequently part of the commentary team himself.
Baxter commentated on the end of the 1992 World Cup Final between England and Pakistan in Melbourne.
In 2001 he was locked out of the ground by the groundsman at Galle, in Sri Lanka; he and BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew eventually watched the action from a nearby fort.
He is a Fellow of The Radio Academy[3] and president of the Bedfordshire Cricket Board and Metro Blind Sports.
He has edited several books with the Test Match Special team and on his own account, 'World Cup - Cricket's Clash of the Titans', 'The Best Views From the Boundary', the autobiographical 'Inside the Box' and 'Can Anyone Hear Me?'