Kenneth Rankin
Kenneth Rankin , who is to give talks on cricket in ' Background to Sport' both on Wednesday and on Thurs
• day week, August 26, has been a devoted watcher of, reader about, and talker on, the game of cricket for forty-one out of the fifty-one years of his life. He also writes about the game, and for the last four years has been Special Correspondent to the Morning Post; In addition, he is an occasional contributor to
Punch, mostly on sporting matters. But this afternoon he is to leave the subject of sport for a while to deal with various forms of acute embarrassment.
In 1927, he acted as assistant to
Captain H. B. T. Wakelam at the England v. Ireland Rugby match at Twickenham, the second broadcast of the kind ever to be given ; and he was one of the team that did the eye-witness accounts of the English Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and Portsmouth at Wembley in 1929. Quite recently he broadcast in the ' Swapping Horses' series ; and many readers will remember that he collaborated with Captain Wakelam in two humorous features in the RADIO Times.