Andrew Samson
Andrew Samson
Andrew is a cricket statistician of note. Since 2009 he has worked for BBC Test Match Special.
In 1994 he was appointed statistician for Cricket South Africa having worked for various radio stations providing cricket statistics since 1988. He contributes to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, South African Cricket Annual and various cricketers’ biographies.
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 for 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” and SuperSport Fact Finder produced annually between 1992 and 1997 with Anton Berkovitz.
Between 2009 and 2011, he presented Go Figure on Radio 702 in South Africa. You can follow Andrew on Twitter @AWSStats.
‘Top Cricket Scorer’ Andrew was interviewed in July 2018 by The Cricket Magazine.
Two cricket fans meet at Jeremy’s Restaurant, thanks to Arnie Wilson, August 2018
Books by Andrew
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What people are saying about The Moon is Toast
Dee is chuckling away over our studio copy of Moon, she loves Andrew’s sense of humour – Deevine Design, South Africa
Review by Andrew Roberts, Cricket Fan
Review by Rajesh Kumar, Cricket Statistician
Hi Andrew,
I like your stats on TMS. It’s always a delight to hear them, particularly the niche stats.
I was debating powerplay scores in the T20 with a friend of mine at the Surrey game the other night and he thought that a score of 80 would get into the top 5%. I’ve tried looking for stats that could verify this but I’ve drawn a blank so far. Would you have access to this type of information at all?
Many thanks,
Dafydd
Hi Andrew, I want to use Access database created by you. What should I do to use it. Pls guide. Thanks!
Hi Andrew, I want to use Access database created by you. What should I do to use it. Pls guide. Thanks!