Statistician Of The Year 2000 - Brian Croudy

At the AGM on 25th March 2000 at Trent Bridge, Eric Midwinter - President of the ACS said "No more fitting testimony to the worthiness of this year's award could be found than the constant response of most on hearing the news of, 'oh, I thought he'd already won it' So I suspect this is a timely, if not belated, award to someone, who did much valiant on the ACS committee in its early days, who was for years Press Association cricket statistician and who, more recently, acted as diligent henchman to David Lemmon in the production of a lengthy series of the Benson & Hedges Yearbook.

An expert on New Zealand and on American cricket, he is here today with his wife, and one is tempted to add the usual adjective when speaking of the spouses of cricket buffs, 'long-suffering'.

The Statistician of the Year award is pleasingly catholic in its compass.

Last year it properly went to a man, who constructed a once-off brilliant tour de force.

This year it goes to a man who, combining the never easy virtues of zeal and carefulness, has dedicated a life-time to the gleaning and dissemination of cricket knowledge, offering yeoman and selfess service to cricket scholorship in general and to the ACS in particular.

I am genuinely delighted to make the award of Cricket Statistician of the Year to BRIAN CROUDY"