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Irving Rosenwater
Irving Rosenwater (11 September 1932 – 30 January 2006) was an English cricket researcher and author whose best-known work was ''Sir Donald Bradman - A Biography'' (1978). Born in the East End of London to jewish parents of Polish origin, Rosenwater initially had two birth certificates. The first registered him as "Isidore", but his parents had second thoughts and promptly changed it. Rosenwater worked on several cricket publications including ''The Cricketer'', where his first reports appeared in 1955; ''Wisden Cricketer's Almanack''; ''The Cricket Society Journal'', of which he was the co-founder; and ''Cricket Quarterly'' (1963–1970), on which he worked with its founder Rowland Bowen. In 1970, Rosenwater became the official cricket scorer for BBC TV, succeeding Roy Webber, but left in 1977 to join Kerry Packer's revolutionary World Series Cricket. Rosenwater was statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Rosenwater 1978
Irving may refer to: People *Irving (name), including a list of people with the name Fictional characters * Irving, the main character's love interest in Cathy (comic strip) * Lloyd Irving, the main protagonist in the ''Tales of Symphonia'' video game Places Canada * Irving Nature Park, a park in Saint John, N.B. United States *Irving, California, former name of Irvington, California *Irving, Illinois *Irving, Iowa *Irving (Duluth), Minnesota *Irving, New York *Irving, Texas *Irving, Wisconsin, a town **Irving (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois * Irving Township, Montgomery County, Illinois * Irving Township, Michigan * Irving Township, Minnesota * Lake Irving, a lake in Minnesota Companies * Irving Group of Companies, Canadian conglomerate based in Saint John, New Brunswick, controlled by the Irving family, including: ** J. D. Irving, a conglomerate with holdings in forestry, pulp and paper, tissue, newsprint, building supplie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Webber
Roy Webber (died 14 November 1962 aged 48) was a British cricket scorer and statistician. After World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ..., in which he served with the Royal Air Force, he decided to turn what had been his hobby into his profession. He had the necessary proficiency with figures, having previously been an accountant. He was the scorer for BBC Television's Test cricket, Test coverage for many years. He edited ''The Cricket Annual'' in 1961 and 1962. He was joint editor of the magazine ''Playfair Cricket Monthly'' and wrote a number of cricket books. He also wrote for the ''News Chronicle'' and the ''Daily Mail''. He married twice. His first was c. 1940 to Margaret Winiefred Bentley. They had two children: Patience Margaret (1942) and Nigel Emary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket Scorers
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cricket), bails balanced on three stump (cricket), stumps. The batting (cricket), batting side scores run (cricket), runs by striking the cricket ball, ball Bowling (cricket), bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding (cricket), fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismissal (cricket), dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either Caught, catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket Historians And Writers
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Deaths
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