27 February 2014
The Voice of Lord’s has been silenced. After 38 years and 136 Test matches as the PA announcer for England cricket matches, Johnny Dennis has retired. Dennis, a trained actor who got the job when his predecessor was offered a part in a Carry On film, says that like any stage role “it’s all in the timing”. He does not advise moonlighting, though — once a match overran and he left St John’s Wood with 20 minutes to go before curtain-up in a show he was doing in the West End.
