BBC Test Match Special statistician and scorer Bill Frindall has died at the age of 69 after suffering from Legionnaire’s disease.

Not cool, condolences to his family.

TMS wont be the same with him gone and with seemingly fewer and fewer appearances from Blowers.

Very very sad as you say TMS will not be the same, enough said really.

Legionnaires! bugger.
Enriched my time on the planet – much obliged Frindle old boy.

I feel a bit odd about how much I’ll miss a bloke I’ve never met.

God bless you Bill…TMS won’t be the same.

🙁

ditto, I met him once very briefly but can in no way say i knew him. But after spending large parts of the last 30 or so summers with him, I feel like I do.

He was like a very patient but slightly irritated schoolmaster trying to bring the unruly kids back to their lessons but at the same time realising that on TMS, the cricket is almost incidental to the general messing about. He and Peter Baxter provided just enough framework; no mean skill.

He’ll be sadly missed, by listeners around the world and also by supporters of the charities and bodies he worked with.

Innings closed on 30th Jan 2009. Thanks Bill.

Sad day 🙁

Unreplaceable