Richard Streeton

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Richard Marsh Streeton (4 November 1930 - 30 June 2006) was an English sports journalist, concentrating on cricket.

Streeton's father was a manager for HMV and the BBC. Streeton was educated at King's School, Canterbury, before leading a distinguished naval career. He worked on provincial newspapers in Nuneaton, Mansfield, Nottingham and Kettering, before joining Reuters in 1958. He remained at Reuters for over a decade, where is assignments included the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, England cricket tours to Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies, and the Monte Carlo Rally. He joined The Times in 1969, in London. He originally combined writing with sub-editing, but became a full-time writer from 1977. He became well-known as a cricket and rugby correspondent, but also covered badminton, table tennis and cycling. He went on several winter tours with the England cricket team. He left The Times in January 1993 and retired to Devon.

He became a respected President of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians between 1987 and 1997. He wrote an acclaimed biography of the cricketer Percy Fender in 1981, written during a strike of print workers that closed The Times for almost a year. He also wrote a historical tribute, 21 Years of the ACS.