HENRY Blofeld and Peter Baxter are on tour.

These two titans of UK cricket will visit Cheltenham, Swindon and Chipping Norton with their side-splitting show full of memories from within the Test Match Special commentary boxes from all over the world.

The fun spills out from the globe’s most famous grounds to taxis, buses, beaches, deserts and hotels. Anecdotes never before heard of the most legendary players – in every sense of the word – from the last 40 years are finally aired.

Henry Blofeld began to write about cricket for The Times in 1962. Ten years later he joined the famous Test Match Special team for two one-day games against Australia and he has been on the airwaves ever since.

Blowers has lived life to the full regarding each day as an orange and squeezing it dry of the last drop of juice before moving onto the next day.

He is a medical marvel, having survived a heart by-pass operation which went horribly wrong, a gall bladder that behaved like a deprived monster and picking up the dreaded MRSA along the way. Since then, back and hip operations have followed two-a-penny, but all have been greeted with guffaws of laughter and bottles of Burgundy. Peter Baxter was the producer of the great cricket institution Test Match Special for BBC Radio for 34 years. During his tenure on the show Peter worked alongside the legendary John Arlott, the inimitable Brian Johnston and, of course, the unforgettable Blofeld, and ushered in new voices, such as Jonathan Agnew, who continues to entertain, inform and charm listeners today.

Baxter has spent a lifetime in radio broadcasting, retiring from the trade in June of 2007.

Blofeld and Baxter, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, April 26; Swindon Arts Centre, May 29 and The Theatre, Chipping Norton, June 3.