Charles Fortune Cricket commentator

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Does anyone remember his cricket commentaries in the days before TV.
He was so descriptive and entertaining, you felt like you were at the match when listening to him.

Tried to Google him, but could not find much....

FORTUNE, CHARLES ARTHUR FREDERICK, who died on November 22, 1994, aged 89, was South Africa's best-known cricket commentator. Fortune was born in Wiltshire and taught at Rutlish, John Major's old school, in London before emigrating to take up a science teaching post in Grahamstown in 1935. He began broadcasting just before the war and built up a reputation for gentle, discursive commentaries in the English manner which made him exceptionally popular among South African cricket followers. Sometimes they found him too discursive: once he received a telegram saying simply "What's the score?" He retired from Radio South Africa in 1972, and then for 12 years was secretary of the South African Cricket Association (later Union), a post which at that stage was more secretarial than executive. He continued broadcasting until a stroke in 1989. Fortune was a conservative, and appeared to take South Africa's exclusion from world cricket as something of a personal affront. His death came hours before the new media centre at the Wanderers ground in Johannesburg was due to be named after him.

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Many, MANY years ago in South Africa, before they even had TV broadcasts, there was a cricket commentator called Charles Fortune, a gentleman in the real sense of the word but unfortunately prone to gaffes. On one occasion, there were players with the surnames of Willie and another called Holding. Poor old Charles picked up to microphone and came out with "The batsman's Holding - the Bowler's Willie" which had thousands of people in tears of laughter and has never been forgotten to this day.

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