awarded Jack Hobbs 199 first-class hundreds (as recorded on Cricinfo), while Wisden, the generally accepted standard, gave Hobbs his "traditional" total of 197 centuries. Wisden aligned with the ACS in 2022. More recently, when the International Cricket Council decided to award Test and One Day International status to the matches played for the tsunami benefit and the ICC Super Series between Australia and a Rest of the World team, Frindall, in common with many statisticians and historians, disputed the ruling. As a result, Playfair and other publications to which he supplied statistics did not classify those matches as official Tests or ODIs. Publications His autobiography, Bearders – My Life in Cricket, was published by Orion in June 2006. Other works include the Playfair Cricket Annual, which he edited for 23 years, from 1986 until his death; the Wisden Book of Test Cricket; the Wisden Book of Cricket Records; the Guinness Book of Cricket – Facts and Feats; and the 'Cricket records' section of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, which he maintained for 22 years. He was also briefly a correspondent for the Mail on Sunday. Honours and awards In 1998, Frindall was made an honorary Doctor of Technology by Staffordshire University, for his contribution to statistics. He was appointed an MBE for services to cricket and broadcasting in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours. He received several awards from the Beard Liberation Front, including "Beard of the Year". Frindall was the first president of British Blind Sport, a charity co-ordinating sport for the blind and partially sighted. Personal life Frindall was married three times. He married Maureen Wesson in 1960, and they had two sons and a daughter together. After their divorce in 1970, he was married to Jacqueline Seager in May 1970. After a second divorce in 1980, he married Deborah Brown in 1992; they had a daughter. Away from TMS he lived in Wiltshire, latterly at Urchfont near Devizes, and was an accomplished after-dinner speaker, telling tales of the commentary box, which often displayed his excellent powers of mimicry; he could do Arlott and Trueman brilliantly. Death Frindall died at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon on 29 January 2009, following a short illness after contracting Legionnaires' disease during a charity cricketing tour of Dubai with the Lord's Taverners. He was survived by his third wife, Debbie, who used to deliver his lunch to the commentary box each day, and