Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians

We are pleased to publish a tribute to former ACS president and England captain MJK Smith, by his biographer and friend Douglas Miller, on the @ACScricket website at acscricket.com/?page_id=12162 along with some memories from ACS members and a few statistics from his cricketing career.

Loved listening to Marion Collin: The Haygarth of women's cricket on the @ACScricket You Tube Channel A remarkable woman. youtu.be/S4iSFG593cU?si…

The schedule for The 2025 #countycricketroadshow is out now & all members of @CricketSociety are able to join the loose aggregation of cricket enthusiasts who traverse England & Wales enjoying county cricket. If interested then direct message @peterhardy51

Brilliant to see @WorcsCCC honouring their history and heritage. Love the timeline - if @NorthantsCCC want one at Wantage Road the info and images are readily at hand!

For all you non-league football fans out there but also for all those wonderful people that share my love of the county game - this one’s for you @ccricketday @TheCricketPaper @HarryEverett_14

On This Day in 1897 @DerbyshireCCC wicket-keeper, Bill Storer removed his pads and took five for 40 against Surrey at The Oval. Storer scored 12 of the 39 hundreds made by Derbyshire 'keepers, and when making ten of his 12 hundreds, he also bowled in the same match @ACScricket

Irthlingborough’s finest, Jim Griffiths, praises @sando567 who recently exceeded Griff’s tally of 627 all-format wickets for @NorthantsCCC. “He’s an exceptional bowler, I’m glad he’s up there and I hope he goes further.” Much more in Monday’s Cricket Show on @BBCNorthampton 6pm.

A reminder that at 11.00am BST on Sunday 24th May @ACScricket hosts another of its popular online discussions: Professors Sam Duncan & Tom Heenan discuss ‘Big Bash as Mass Deception’ - controversial or what? Join ACS at @https://acscricket.com & then attend this fascinating chat.

5th scorecard of the season this time from Arundel where England Lions took on South Africa A. Bit of lateral movement meant that 17 wkts fell on Day 1. Only Marques Ackerman scored more than 29 (he was 56*). Alfie Ogbourne, Eddie Jack & Mitchell Stanley impressed. @AnnieChave

The IPL reaches its end who are the most valuable players: is it Sunil Naraine with the best economy rate of 6.40 runs per over or Vaibhav Sooryavanshi with the best strike rate of 236.32. Or Sai Sudharsan with 638 runs or Bhuv Kumar with 24 wickets. surely it depends who wins?

Some photos of the cricketer Mike Smith who has sadly died recently aged 92. My snap of MJK in Barbados as England manager on the West Indies tour in 1994. Other peoples snaps show him working on the Leamington CC ground a couple of years ago. Also meeting the Queen at Lords.

It's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birth anniversary. The creator of Sherlock Holmes was a keen cricketer whose only first class wicket was the great W G Grace and even wrote a story about a mystery bowler decades before Mendis and Narain. Doyle's tale, "The Story of Spedegue's Dropper" first appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1928, and told of a mystery bowler who became the hero of an Ashes test match. The story is still a great read!

Sixty years ago today ... Wes Hall walks back to his mark during the West Indians' tour match v Cambridge University, Fenner's, May 22nd 1966. Hall went wicketless in the game which the tourists won by 174 runs (Patrick Eagar) (C)

@ACScricket had an excellent visit to @somcrickmuseum in Taunton today. Sighted in a beautifully restored historic barn right by the County Group it provides a fine sense of history of @SomersetCCC & is the type of place where hours could be taken up to do it proper justice.

Many thanks to @CricketMediaUK & @collinsadam for a great day at @SheppertonCC for @cricketsocxi - as we notched 201/8 in 35 overs & then bowled CMC out for 119. TomGross 52 & @NorthantsLegend with 4 wickets were the heroes. SimonLister vital 22 & 3 victims superb as well.

On 22nd May 1945, 1st class cricket resumed at Lords with the start of a 5 match series between Australian Services & England. Keith Miller inevitably scored a century & future umpire Cec Pepper took 4-80 with his leg spinners as Australian Services won by 6 wkts. #cricketcounts

@ACScricket is taking over the website of ‘Women’s Cricket History’ & we are delighted that we will be able to maintain & enhance this wonderful historical record of women’s cricket via womenscrickethistory.org @RafNicholson @AlisonMitchell @NickFriend1 #cricketcounts

An excellent @CricketSociety evening ‘Grace and the Golden Age: A Mixed Blessing?’ The expert panel included Mike Brearley. Thank you for your company @WG_RumblePants

Been looking forward to receiving a copy of this for @HomeOfCricket library for a while, from helping with a PhD, to journal articles & now a book! On the history of @AuthorsCC & literary cricketers @FairfieldBooks_ we also have a display in pavilion on writers featured

We are pleased to publish a tribute to former ACS president and England captain MJK Smith, by his biographer and friend Douglas Miller, on the @ACScricket website at acscricket.com/?page_id=12162 along with some memories from ACS members and a few statistics from his cricketing career.

The ACS is very sad to learn of the death of our former President, MJK Smith of Warwickshire. In addition to playing 50 Tests for England, 25 as captain, he was a very popular president of our Association from 2007 to 2017. We published Douglas Miller's biography of MJK, "No Ordinary Man", in 2013. archive.acscricket.com/online_library… MJK scored 39,832 first-class runs at 41.84 (2,278 of them for England) over a career that ran from 1951 to 1975. He also played one Rugby Union international against Wales in 1956. He served as Warwickshire’s chairman from 1991 to 2003, managed several England tours, and made history as the ICC’s first referee in the Australia-India series of 1991-92.

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