Andrew Hignell Explained

Andrew Keith Hignell (born 12 October 1959 in Gloucester)[1] is a cricket historian and scorer.

Hignell has a PhD in Geography from Cardiff University. He has been the Glamorgan 1st XI scorer since 1982. For over 25 years he combined a career as a teacher at independent schools with working on radio commentaries for BBC Radio Wales on the home and away matches of Glamorgan. In 2004 he left full-time teaching at Wells Cathedral School to become the Heritage and Education Co-Ordinator at Glamorgan Cricket, where he manages the Museum of Welsh Cricket at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

Hignell has written numerous books on cricket.[2] [3] In Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Alan Ross said Hignell's 1995 biography of Glamorgan's combative post-war captain Wilf Wooller, which was based on extensive interviews, revealed a "surprising warmth" in its subject.[4] Wisden's editor Graeme Wright, reviewing Hignell's 2001 biography of Malcolm Turnbull, praised Hignell as "a thorough researcher and a sound writer", adding that Hignell gets Turnbull "just right".[5] Reviewing Hignell's 2002 book Rain Stops Play, Wisden Cricket Monthly said, "Hignell's excellent volume should be required reading in both dressing-room and press box", and added that it was "a history of cricket with a strong geographical bias".[6] The Welsh historian John Idris Jones, writing in Planet, said of Hignell's Cricket in Wales (2008), "As a chronicle of cricket in Wales, it is not likely to be surpassed",[7] while Duncan Stone, reviewing Cricket in Wales in the journal Sport in History, said "Hignell's obviously exhaustive research informs, illuminates and entertains".

Hignell was awarded The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians' 1988 Statistician of the Year award "for his work on the history and statistics of Glamorgan".[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andrew Hignell. Cricinfo. 17 April 2018.
  2. Web site: Andrew Hignell. www.cruiseshipenrichment.net. 17 April 2018.
  3. Web site: Andrew Hignell. Gomer. 28 September 2019. 28 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190928014945/https://www.gomer.co.uk/authors/andrewhignell.html. dead.
  4. Wisden 1996, p. 1354.
  5. Wisden 2002, p. 1534.
  6. Wisden 2003, p. 1679.
  7. Web site: Cricket in Wales . University of Wales Press . 29 June 2024.
  8. Web site: Statistician of the Year 1988 – Andrew Hignell . 2024-06-28 . . en-GB.
  9. Review of The History of Glamorgan County Cricket Club: John Twigg (2007), "More establishment history: a review essay", The International Journal of the History of Sport ,
  10. Review of A "Favourit" Game: Jack Williams (1993), Welsh History Review,
  11. Review of Rain Stops Play: Robert Thorpe (2006), Weather,
  12. Review of Summer of '64: Derek Clements (17 April 2005), "Book of the week", The Times
  13. Review of Cricket in Wales: Duncan Stone (2010), Sport in History,
  14. Review of The Australian Cricketers in Wales: Steve Dube, "Welsh book reviews", WalesOnline