Philip Bailey (cricket writer)
- Philip Bailey (cricket writer)
Philip J Bailey (born 1953 in Essex; raised in Orpington, Kent) is an English cricket statistician. He was educated at Eltham College and Cambridge University.
He is the chief statistician and records compiler for "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" and contributes the career records section to "Playfair Cricket Annual". He has previously worked for the Cricinfo website and currently for CricketArchive.
Bailey is acknowledged to be one of the major statisticians of his generation. [Richard Streeton, [http://web.archive.org/web/20030216181146/www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/SOCIETIES/ENG/ACS/ACS_21_YEARS/21YEARS_009.html "Twenty-one years of the ACS"] (retrieved from Internet Archive on July 2, 2005) ] . The Wisden editor Matthew Engel credits him with taking "this abtruse branch of science to levels that in other fields win Nobel Prizes" [Matthew Engel, "Preface", Wisden 2004, p.9, John Wisden & co Ltd, ISBN 1403-92289-6] .
The so-called List A is Bailey's creation. The name was used simply to differentiate it from List B, ie: Matches not deemed imprtant enough for List A.
Philip Bailey's best-known work is the standard reference book "The Who's Who of Cricketers" (1994), written in partnership with Peter Wynne-Thomas.
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