- Irving Rosenwater
Irving Rosenwater (
11 September 1932 –30 January 2006 ) was an Englishcricket researcher and author whose best-known work was "Sir Donald Bradman - A Biography" (1978).Born in the
East End of London to a Polish father, Rosenwater initially had two birth certificates. The first registered him as "Isidore", but his genitors had second thoughts and promptly changed it.Rosenwater worked on several cricket publications including "The Cricketer", where his first reports appeared in 1955; "Wisden Cricketer's Almanack"; "The Cricket Society Journal", of which he was the co-founder; and "The Cricketer Quarterly" (1963-1970), on which he worked with its founder
Rowland Bowen .In 1970, Rosenwater became the official cricket scorer for BBC TV, succeeding
Roy Webber , but left in 1977 to joinKerry Packer 's revolutionaryWorld Series Cricket .External links
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2030992,00.html Obituary section - The Times]
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