Arthur Wrigley was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 scorer

Scorer

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 and statistician. He was the first scorer for BBC radio

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 cricket commentary.

After service with the Royal Air Force

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 he joined the Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 ground staff as a slow right-arm bowler, though he never played in a first-class match. His career with the BBC began in 1934 when, after a request by commentator Howard Marshall

Howard Marshall (broadcaster)

Howard Percival Marshall achieved distinction in several fields, but is best remembered as a pioneering commentator for live broadcasts of state occasions and sporting events — in particular cricket Test matches — for BBC radio during the 1930s.He went to Oriel College, Oxford, winning a rugby...

 for a scorer, Lancashire offered his services for the England-Australia Test

Test cricket

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 at Old Trafford. However this was not followed up, and it was not until after World War II

World War II

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 that a scorer was regularly employed as a member of the BBC radio team. From 1950 until his death, Wrigley scored for the BBC in most home Tests, including for Test Match Special

Test Match Special

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 when that programme began in 1957.

When not working for the BBC, he practised as an accountant

Accountant

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. He died at Stockport

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aged fifty-three.