Irving Rosenwater

Career

Born in the East End of London to a Polish father, Rosenwater initially had two birth certificates. In 1970, Rosenwater became the official cricket scorer for British Broadcasting Corporation television, succeeding Roy Webber, but left in 1977 to join Kerry Packer"s revolutionary World Series Cricket. Rosenwater was statistician for Channel Nine until the late 1980s.

lieutenant is not exactly known when he left Nine.

Wendy Wimbush took over from him and later Max Kruger who currently occupies the position and has done so for over 10 years.

Achievements

• 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.