Andrew Hignell

Andrew Keith Hignell (born 12 October 1959 in Gloucester)^[1] is a cricket historian and scorer.

Hignell has a PhD in Geography from Cardiff University. He has been the Glamorgan 1st XI scorer since 1982. For over 25 years he combined a career as a teacher at independent schools with working on radio commentaries for BBC Radio Wales on the home and away matches of Glamorgan. In 2004 he left full-time teaching at Wells Cathedral School to become the Heritage and Education Co-Ordinator at Glamorgan Cricket, where he manages the Museum of Welsh Cricket at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

Hignell has written numerous books on cricket.^[2]^[3] Alan Ross said Hignell's 1995 biography of Glamorgan's combative post-war captain Wilf Wooller, which was based on extensive interviews, revealed a "surprising warmth" in its subject.^[4] Reviewing Hignell's 2002 book Rain Stops Play, Wisden Cricket Monthly said, "Hignell's excellent volume should be required reading in both dressing-room and press box", and added that it was "a history of cricket with a strong geographical bias".^[5] The Welsh historian John Idris Jones, writing in Planet, said of Hignell's Cricket in Wales (2008), "As a chronicle of cricket in Wales, it is not likely to be surpassed",^[6] while Duncan Stone, reviewing Cricket in Wales in the journal Sport in History, said "Hignell's obviously exhaustive research informs, illuminates and entertains".^[7]

Hignell was awarded The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians' 1988 Statistician of the Year award "for his work on the history and statistics of Glamorgan".^[8]

Books

Cricket Grounds of Glamorgan (1986)
The History of Glamorgan County Cricket Club (1988)
A "Favourit" Game: Cricket in South Wales before 1914 (1992)
J.C. Clay: His Record Innings-by-Innings (1992)
A Who's Who of Glamorgan County Cricket Club 1888–1991 (1992)
Glamorgan County Cricket Club: First-Class Records 1921-1993 (1994)
The Skipper: A Biography of Wilf Wooller (1995)
Glamorgan County Cricket Club: The Second Selection (1998)
100 Greats: Glamorgan County Cricket Club (2000)
Turnbull: A Welsh Sporting Hero (2001)
Classics: Glamorgan County Cricket Club (2001)
Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates (2002)
100 Greats: Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (2002, with Adrian Thomas)
100 First-Class Umpires (2003)
Summer of '64: A Season in English Cricket (2005)
Getting it Right (2006; assisted with Barrie Meyer's autobiography)
Glamorgan Grounds: The Homes of Welsh Cricket (2002)
Glamorgan: The Glory Years 1993–2002 (2003)
Gloucestershire CCC: 50 of the Finest Matches (2004)
Cardiff Sporting Greats (2007)
Cricket in Wales: An Illustrated History (2008)
From Sophia to SWALEC: A History of Cricket in Cardiff (2009)
C.P. Lewis: The Champion Cricketer of South Wales (2009, with Bob Harragan)
The Australian Cricketers in Wales (2009)
Glamorgan CCC on this Day: History, Facts and Figures for Every Day of the Year (2011)
Jack Mercer: A Bowler of Magical Spells (2011)
The History of Blaina Cricket Club (2012, with Emma Peplow)^[9]
Glamorgan CCC Miscellany: Glamorgan Trivia, History, Facts and Stats (2014)
Changing Faces: Glamorgan CCC 1888–2012 (2013)
"Lucky" Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 County Championship Winner (2014)^[10]
Front Foot to Front Line: Welsh Cricket and the Great War (2017)
Always Amongst Friends: The Cardiff and County Club 1866-2016 (2017)
The Daffodil Blooms: The Glorious Rise of Glamorgan CCC to County Champions in 1948 (2018, with Brian Halford)
Glamorgan Cricketers 1889–1920 (2019)
Glamorgan Cricketers 1921–1948 (2020)
A Tall Story: The Life of Nigel Plews (2020)
Cricketscapes: The Changing Geography of Cricket in England and Wales (2020)
Fly at a Higher Game: The Story of TAL Whittington and the Elevation of Glamorgan CCC into the County Championship (2021)

References

^ "Andrew Hignell". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Andrew Hignell". www.cruiseshipenrichment.net. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Andrew Hignell". Gomer. Archived from the original on 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ Wisden 1996, p. 1354.
^ Wisden 2003, p. 1679.
^ "Cricket in Wales". University of Wales Press. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
^ Stone, Duncan (June 2010). "Book Reviews". Sport in History. 30 (2): 347–49. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
^ "Statistician of the Year 1988 – Andrew Hignell". The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
^ Andrew Hignell, Emma Peplow (2012). Cricket in Wales - The History of Blaina Cricket Club. St. David's Press. pp. xx + 172. ISBN 978-1-902719-32-0. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
^ Andrew Hignell, Foreword by Robert Croft (2014). Cricket in Wales - 'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 County Championship Winner. St. David's Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-902719-36-8. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2019-07-07.