Malcolm "Ashtray" Ashton is an English retired sports statistician and columnist. From 2009, he was the

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. His scoring career began in the mid-1970s at

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which soon led to scoring for BBC Radio and Channel 4's cricket programmes. In 1995, he was asked by

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tour as the Team Scorer with the England Cricket Squad. This led to 12 years of involvement with the

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team, totalling over 150 Test matches and 200 One Day matches. In 2009, Ashton took over BBC Sport's most popular columns following the death of his predecessor

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. On 24 February 2015, Ashton announced, via Twitter, he was retiring from TMS.

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BBC's Test Match Special

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