Background
He is the son of the actor, Peter Hughes, and the brother of the historian Bettany Hughes.
(Simon Hughes has written an entertaining and irreverent a...)
Simon Hughes has written an entertaining and irreverent analysis of the history of cricket, taking us beyond the sporting myths of the game to some of its lesser known, more colourful stories and to the heart of what it really means to be English. From the Hardcover edition.
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He is the son of the actor, Peter Hughes, and the brother of the historian Bettany Hughes.
University of Durham.
At Latymer Upper School he was an outstanding fast medium bowler of away-swing and captained the school XI successfully. He went on to study general arts at Durham, and played for the university. He joined Middlesex Commodity Credit Corporation in 1980 and played for them for 12 seasons, culminating in his benefit season of 1991.
He subsequently spent two seasons (1992–1993) playing for Durham Commodity Credit Corporation. Hughes also played for Northern Transvaal in South Africa during the winter of 1982-1983, and the Grafton United Cricket Club in Auckland in the 1987/88 season.
He retired in 1993 to concentrate on a writing career which began as a player for The Independent with the widely acclaimed Cricketer"s Diary. In 1994 he joined the Daily Telegraph as a columnist and became the British Broadcasting Corporation"s roving reporter on Test matches.
He has worked as a journalist for The Independent and The Daily Telegraph, and for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He is currently a commentator/analyst on Cricket on Five with Geoffrey Boycott and Mark Nicholas (with whom he worked on Channel 4). He originally signed up for the programme from 2006 to 2010 when the deal expired, with the ECB. On England"s December 2007 Test match tour of Sri Lanka he was a summariser on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Test Match Special, and a commentator for the ODI series against the West Indies in 2009.
In 2010 he again joined the Test Match Special team commentating on the tour of Bangladesh and the One Day Series against Australia.
He was the analyst for ITV4"s coverage of the 2010 Indian Premier League, and the 2011 Indian Premier League. He remains The Analyst on Channel 5"s evening highlights programme, commentates on British Broadcasting Corporation radio and writes for the Daily Telegraph.
(Simon Hughes has written an entertaining and irreverent a...)