Another fine Saffer the Poms have gotten themselves into

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Cape Town

Andrew Samson does not have Kevin Pietersen’s tattoos, Allan Lamb’s naughtiness or Basil d’Oliveira’s silky strokes, but like them he is a South African made good in English cricket.

Cape Town-educated, Johannesburg-based Samson has been appointed to the most covetable position in the sub-culture of cricket geeks: statistician in residence on Test Match Special (TMS), the BBC radio programme that after 57 years on the air remains the benchmark for all broadca...