Philip Jonathan Bailey (born 10 June 1953) is an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

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. He was educated at

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and

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He is the chief statistician and records compiler for ''

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'' and contributes the career records section to '' Playfair Cricket Annual''. He has previously worked for the

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website and for CricketArchive. He is a co-author of ''The Who's Who of Cricketers'' published by Hamlyn in 1993. Bailey is acknowledged to be one of the major cricket statisticians of his generation. ''Wisden'' editor

Matthew Engel Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951) is a British writer, journalist and editor. Early life and education Engel was born in Northampton, son of solicitor Max David Engel (1912-2005) and Betty Ruth (née Lesser). His grandfather had escaped anti ...

credits him with taking "this abstruse branch of science to levels that in other fields win

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s".

, ''Preface'', Wisden 2004, p.9, John Wisden & co Ltd,

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