Andrew Samson is a cricket statistician and writer, and previously the scorer for the

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's '' Test Match Special''. He was drafted in for the 2010–2011

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to replace resident TMS scorer

Malcolm Ashton Malcolm "Ashtray" Ashton is an English retired sports statistician and columnist. From 2009, he was the BBC's ''Test Match Special'' (''TMS'') scorer. His scoring career began in the mid-1970s at Rawtenstall Cricket Club which soon led to scoring f ...

who did not travel when he was asked to pay his own way. Already an established cricket statistician from South Africa, Samson is known for his ability to find answers quickly to complex questions using his computer database. Samson is a co-author of ''The Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket, 1890-2011.'' He has been Cricket South Africa's official statistician since 1994.

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