Ask Bearders: Answers to the World's Most Challenging Cricket Questions

With his passion and his encyclopedic knowledge of the game, few individuals knew and loved cricket quite like Bill Frindall. In 2001, he began offering his cricket expertise through a column on the Test Match Special website, “Ask Bearders.” Fans would write in with the most difficult and arcane questions possible, hoping to “Stump the Bearded Wonder,” but they never did. Collected here are the best of the Q & As from this popular column, and together they compose a one-stop compendium of the most challenging bits of history and statistics the game has to offer.