Ivan Johnson Biography
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Ivan Nicholas Johnson (born 27 June 1953, Bahamas) is a former professional, all rounder, English first-class cricketer who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club from 1972 to 1975. Johnson is the first and only Bahamian to have played professional cricket at the first-class and junior Test cricket level. Johnson is also the only Bahamian to have worked as a staff sub-editor and journalist on newspapers in Fleet Street. Johnson founded The Punch, a controversial Bahamian tabloid newspaper.\n', '
Johnson was born in 1953 in Nassau, Bahamas, to a Bahamian father and an English mother.\n', '
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. Johnson\'s father was the only black Bahamian to fly in the British Royal Air Force during World War II.\n', '
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