Malcolm Ashton
Malcolm Ashton is a very entertaining after dinner speaker from Bury in Lancashire, ready to attend your official event at any time. Thinking of booking this popular statistician for your event? Based in the North West he is centrally placed to travel anywhere. From 2009, Malcolm “Ashtray” Ashton 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 for BBC Radio and Channel 4’s cricket programmes.
Malcolm Ashton After Dinner Speaker
Not only working as a scorer, Malcolm also took up the position of statistician on Radio 2 and Test Match Special. In 1995, he was asked by Ray Illingworth to go on the South African Cricket tour as the Team Scorer with the England Cricket Squad.
This led to 12 years of involvement with the England Cricket 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 Bill Frindall. On 24 February 2015, he announced, via Twitter, he was retiring from TMS. (Wikipedia).