Brian Croudy
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Brian Croudy was born on December 31, 1936 at Balham, London. His early life was spent in Putney and he was educated at Salesian College, Battersea. After three years National Service in the R.A.F., he joined London Transport and spent the next thirty years there. He took up cricket statistics for something to do in the evenings and his first purchase was Test Form at a Glance by A.A.Thomas.
Croudy joined the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians in 1974 and spent the next ten years on the conmittee. A great friend of Geoffrey Copinger, he took over compiling averages for the press association from him in 1982 and stayed there for ten years until computers were introduced and the section moved to Leeds. He spent Saturday afternoons working on the football results service. A chance meeting with David Lemmon in 1982 led to seventeen years working on the Benson and Hedges cricket yearbook until Lemmon's death in 1998. He compiled statistics for Gerald Howat's books on Pelham Warner and Len Hutton and produced figures for a number of David Lemmon's biographies. He has been very active within the ACS, has assisted Philip Bailey for a number of years with the ACS Yearbook, and has so far produced famous Cricketer books on Colin Blythe, Wilfred Rhodes and Denis Compton with Kit Bartlett. He also provides Wisden with the County Championship figures each year.
He was ACS Statistician of the Year in 2000. He is currently writing a book on Gentlemen v Players matches.
