<P> Johnston was renowned for his on - air schoolboy humour and puns . In one incident during a Test match at the Oval in 1991, Jonathan Agnew suggested that when Ian Botham was out hit wicket, trying to hurdle the stumps, it was because he had failed to "get his leg over" (a British slang term meaning to have sex). Johnston carried on commentating and giggling for 30 seconds before dissolving into helpless laughter . </P> <P> Among his other gaffes were: "There's Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle", which he uttered when Harvey was representing Australia at the Headingley Test in 1961 . </P> <P> The oft - cited quote "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" supposedly occurred when Michael Holding of the West Indies was bowling to Peter Willey of England in a Test match at The Oval in 1976 . Johnston claimed not to have noticed saying anything odd during the match, and that he was only alerted to his gaffe by a letter from "a lady" named "Miss Mainpiece". According to Christopher Martin - Jenkins, his Cricinfo biography, and the biography by Johnston's son Barry, Johnston never actually made the remark . Barry Johnston says "It was too good a pun to resist...but Brian never actually said that he had spoken the words on air ." Holding himself has expressed his doubt about the phrase ever being said, pointing out that no recording of it exists . Henry Blofeld and former TMS Producer Peter Baxter said that Johnston did not come up with the phrase and did not say it during commentary . </P> <P> During 1970 and 1983, Johnston said that he disapproved of the boycotts of South Africa by England cricket teams as he believed that sport and politics should not be mixed . He had disagreements with John Arlott who backed the boycotts . Apartheid was ended shortly after Johnston's death . </P>

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