Ivan Nicholas Johnson (27 June 1953 – 4 October 2021) was a professional, all rounder, English first-class cricketer who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club from 1972 to 1975. He was the only Bahamian to have played professional cricket at the first-class and junior Test cricket level. He was also the only Bahamian to have worked as a staff sub-editor and journalist on newspapers in Fleet Street. In 1990 Johnson founded The Punch, a controversial Bahamian tabloid newspaper. Biography Johnson was born in 1953 in Nassau, Bahamas, to a Bahamian father and an English mother. He died on 4 October 2021 at the age of 68 after a heart attack. Family Johnson's late father, Basil L. I. Johnson, CBE DFM RAFVR was a World War II flight sergeant. In 1943 and 1944, Basil Johnson flew fifty war-time bombing missions in Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft for the Pathfinder (RAF) 156 squadron. He was the only black Bahamian to fly in the British Royal Air Force during World War II. Johnson's grandfather, Thomas Tot Walsh, was a professional footballer who was a centre-forward for the Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace. In 1923, Walsh was the twelfth man for the Football Association Cup final, known as the White Horse Final, where Bolton beat West Ham 2 to 0 at Wembley. On 15 January 1927, he scored a double hat-trick in a 9 to 4 win for Bristol City against Gillingham. Education Johnson was educated at Queen's College, Nassau, Bahamas and the Seaford Court Preparatory School at Malvern Link, Worcestershire. His high school education was completed at Malvern College where he took O and A levels. His A levels included English literature and Spanish. He later studied Spanish during a summer break at the University of Valladolid. Junior cricketing (1966 to 1971) In 1966, at age 13, Johnson was the first boy to score a century for Seaford Court Preparatory School. In that year, during his last summer at Seaford Court, he hit three hundreds, including one score of 150 not out. The headmaster, Geoffrey Milton, himself an Old Malvernian, was proud of Johnson's outstanding batting performances. However, Milton bemoaned the fact that Johnson cost him a fortune in lost cricket balls by constantly hitting balls out of the school's grounds. Johnson was the first and (as yet) only boy to hit a straight six, a huge distance over the sight screen, into the