Andrew Samson

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Andrew Samson is a cricket statistician and writer, and previously the scorer for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was drafted in for the 2010–2011 Ashes series in Australia to replace resident TMS scorer Malcolm Ashton who did not travel when he was asked to pay his own way.{{cite news |last=Cumming |first=Ed |title=The Ashes 2010: Sky Sports v Test Match Special |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=25 Nov 2010 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8159286/The-Ashes-2010-Sky-Sports-v-Test-Match-Special.html}} Already an established cricket statistician from South Africa,{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-samson/24/a25/493 |title=Andrew Samson |publisher=LinkedIn |accessdate=25 Apr 2013}} Samson is known for his ability to find answers quickly to complex questions using his computer database.

Samson is a co-author of The Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket, 1890-2011.{{cite press release |title=Media Release on the Launch of the Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket, 1890 - 2011 |date=1 Feb 2012 |publisher=Western Province Cricket Association |url=http://www.wpca.org.za/1/post/2012/01/media-release-on-the-launch-of-the-blue-book-a-history-of-western-province-cricket-1890-2011.html}}

He has been Cricket South Africa's official statistician since 1994.