Bill Frindall

William Howard Frindall, MBE, ( born March 3, 1939 in Epsom, Surrey; † January 29, 2009 in Swindon, Wiltshire ) was an English cricket scorer and statistician.

Life

Frindall was born in Epsom, Surrey. After school, he studied architecture. From 1958 to 1965 he served in the Royal Air Force as accounting officer and officer in the Secretariat Service. He was married three times and had two sons and two daughters.

In 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Staffordshire University for his services in the field of statistics. Frindall died in January 2009, legionellosis, with whom he had been infected in Dubai at a charity event.

Cricket

Frindall was an avid cricket player, who was never progress beyond the status of an amateur. In June 1966 he took the post scorers in Test Match Special, the live radio broadcast of the BBC, where the games of the English Cricket Team be transferred. He held until his death, where he paused at the longer -month international tours of the England team in recent years, at times this office. In the years 1966-2008 he was employed as a scorer at 377 Test matches, including all of the 246 that took place during this period in England.

The nickname of Frindall under which he was the listeners of Test Match Special known throughout the world, was " the Bearded Wonder " (engl.: the bearded wonder ). He was able to perform a perfect scorecards, and simultaneously to determine within a very short time even completely obscure statistics and data that he then introduced again and again in the current radio report. His scorecards and statistics enjoyed such a reputation that they were always preferred to the official data, in case of disagreement.

His autobiography published Frindall in 2006. He has published several books about cricket statistics. Wisden Cricketers In ' Almanack, he was responsible for a long time for the statistics section. Since 2006 he was a patron of the German Cricket Federation.