Vic Isaacs
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Victor H Isaacs (born 26 August 1944 Glasgow, Scotland) is an eminent cricket scorer and statistician.
He was born in Glasgow, raised in Blackpool and Manchester, before settling in Hampshire. He served Hampshire CCC as scorer for thirty-one years from 1974 until being made to retire by the new regime in 2005. He has compiled and written a number of historical and statistical books for the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and other publishers. He is a past webmaster for the ACS and a past winner of the ACS Statistician of the Year award in 1997.
A fomer pillar of the South Hampshire Reform community, Isaacs runs its www.shrjc.com website, since his move North he has joined the council of The Manchester Jewish Liberal Community is a regular at events and runs that www.mljc.org.ukweb site also. He told the "Jewish Chronicle" in September 2005, "During the winter I have more time to help out in the Jewish community and I also do some work for Sky Sports, which involves providing the stats during Test matches".
He is set to make a lecture tour of India, before starting work on a book about his experience of the game of cricket. A family man, he has been married to Brenda since 1971. They have retired to Bury, Lancashire and he is active with Ramsbottom Cricket Club. They have a son Richard and a daughter Rachael.
