Keith Booth (scorer)
Keith Booth is a cricket writer and scorer. He has been the principal scorer for Surrey County Cricket Club since 1995.
Like Geoffrey Boycott, Dickie Bird and Michael Parkinson, he comes from Barnsley, and like them he inherited a love of cricket. He has previously scored for Middlesex and MCC and was scorer for Test Match Special in the West Indies in 1994. His wife Jennifer is Surrey's reserve scorer.
He has written a history of cricket scoring, biographies of the cricketers Michael Atherton, Ted Pooley, George Lohmann and Ernie Hayes, as well as a biography of the pioneering cricket and football administrator C. W. Alcock. His book about Lohmann won The Cricket Society's Book of the Year award for 2007-8.[1]
He currently plays for Sutton Cricket Club.
[edit] Bibliography
- Atherton's progress: From Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval, Clifford Frost, 1996, ISBN 978-1870066259.
- Knowing the Score, Two Heads Publishing, 1998, ISBN 978-1897850633. A history of scoring, with a Foreword by Bill Frindall. Paperback edition.
- Knowing the Score, Mainstream Publishing, 1999, ISBN 978-1840181975. Hardback edition.
- His Own Enemy: The Rise and Fall of Edward Pooley, Belmont Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0953776603.
- The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W. Alcock, Parrs Wood Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1903158340.
- George Lohmann, Pioneer Professional, SportsBooks Ltd, 2007, ISBN 978-1899807505.
- Ernest Hayes - Brass in a Golden Age, ACS Publications, 2008, ISBN 978-1905138685.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Cricket Society's Book of the Year retrieved 2 July, 2008
