RIP Bill 'Bearders' Frindall

[JAS]

A behind the scenes and stats legend of the cricket world has died...Bill 'Bearders' Frindall.

Always loved the banter between him and the rest of the TMS team...especially with Aggers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7861363.stm

RIP Bill

Regards
JAS

[am Bays]

OMG!!

TMS is the best part of an ASHES sereis. Growing up listening ever four years to Trueman, Johnners, Aggers (recently), CMJ and Blowers (my dear old thing) well it was a hiighlate of the winter.

Bearders baritone interjections on statistics made the whole listening experience.

I still have his edited copy: Guinness Book of Cricket records.

This year ASHES wont seem the same, really it only Blowers from the originals when I first started listening (1985) who is left.

Apart from mark Nicholas who is a goose the English commentators are so much better than ours.

[spell_check]

I tried asking him a question on that Stump the Bearded Wonder last year some time, but for some reason, my e-mail wouldn't send. He will be always remembered as a stats legend, for sure. He took the rational stance that those ICC World XI and African/Asian teams do not count towards Test stats, as well as not acknowledging the ICCs decision to change the forfeited Test result to a draw. And really, a man of such stature in the cricketing world should be listened too, but the ICC certainly did not.

[McAlmanac]

"Frindall sheets" are de rigeur amongst the scoring fraternity. Vale.