The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Your number’s up: cricket statto Andrew Samson

If you read this paper you must be a cricket fan of some sort, but there are those whose possibly obsessive relationship with the game goes deeper, the real cricket tragics, to use a handy Australianism.
To see some of them, you could have come with me last weekend, when I went to the AGM of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS).
In Andrew Samson’s new book The Moon is Toast – A Year in the Life of a Cricket Statistician he s...