How I fell in love with cricket statistics

The immutable nature of numbers can prove attractive to some young cricket fans. In 1981, Gary Naylor was one of those fansHere, in 1981, is John Gordon Sinclair being me, in 1981:Numbers are so reassuringly certain to a particular kind of teenage boy. Unlike one's body, unlike one's hormones and definitely, definitely, unlike girls, they're the same from one day to the next, wherever you are and there's always another one if you think it's time for a change. It's when numbers had to be turned i