Lives in Cricket No 22 - Jack Mercer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrew Hignell is the archivist and First Eleven scorer of Glamorgan County Cricket Club. A graduate of Exeter and Cardiff Universities, Andrew taught geography at Blundell’s School before being appointed Head of Department in the Humanities faculty at Wells Cathedral School in 1993. In 2005 he ‘retired’ from teaching to work full-time for Glamorgan for whom he had been honorary statistician since 1981 and webmaster since 1996. Andrew has been a member of the ACS since 1979 and in 1987 he was Association’s Statistician of the Year. He has been the secretary of the ACS since 2004, as well as acting as editor of The Cricket Society’s journal. He has broadcast on BBC Radio Wales since 1981, and for over twenty years was scorer-statistician on their coverage of Glamorgan cricket. The Ashes Test Match at Cardiff in July 2009 also saw Andrew make his England debut in Test cricket, and he has also scored several one-day and Twenty20 Internationals at the SWALEC Stadium. Andrew has written over twenty cricket books, including ‘Turnbull’ and ‘Rain Stops Play’ which were both runners-up in the Cricket Society’s Cricket Book of the Year award, besides co-authoring the volume on C.P.Lewis in the Lives in Cricket series.