The Moon Is Toast: A Year In the Life of a Cricket Statistician (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Andrew Samsonis a well-knowncricket statistician. Apart from working as Cricket South Africa's Official Statistician since 1994 he has worked on many television and radio broadcasts of the game since 1988. Most of this has been for BBC and SABC radio. He has been a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians since 1980 and was on the committee from 2003 to 2007. He was the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians Statistician of the Year 2013. He was Official Statistician for the following ICC events in South Africa: Cricket World Cup 2003, World Twenty20 2007 and World Cup Qualifier 2009.

He is co-author of '1107 All Out - The Cricketer's Quiz Book' with Peter Fridjhon; 'The Blue Book' with Andre Odendaal and Krish Reddy; 'South African and International Sports Fact Finder' produced annually between 1992 and 1997 with Anton Berkovitz. He has contributed the statistics for the South African Cricket Annual since 1994 and also contributed to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack since that date. He has contributed statistical chapters to a number of biographies of South African cricketers.

This is his first book written all by himself and [it] recalls the [cricketing] year 2015 in which he gives a unique insight into the life of a cricket statistician trying to explain how he does his job.