Corbett was born in Birmingham and began his career in 1951, as a tea boy, aged 16, at the Yorkshire Evening Press. During his National Service he edited Japan News, the forces newspaper, in Tokyo.[2] Following his military service, Corbett returned to York as a sports writer, went on to the Daily Herald, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express, before becoming cricket correspondent of the Daily Star in 1982.[2] In 1989, Corbett set up his own sports agency, Cricket Direct. Corbett also wrote for the Indian daily newspaper The Hindu and its supplementary sports digest, The Sportstar.[1] He also wrote the novel The Great Cricket Betting Scandal (Parrs Wood Press, 2000), about a fictional English cricket tour of India in the early 1900s.[4]
Corbett continued his sports journalism into his eighties.[1] He died in Huntingdon in August 2017, aged 82.[2]
