Keith Booth (scorer)

Keith Rodney Booth (30 September 1942 – 25 January 2024) was an English cricket writer and scorer.[1]

Booth was the principal scorer for Surrey County Cricket Club and international matches played at The Oval between 1995 and 2017.[2]

Like Geoffrey Boycott, Dickie Bird and Michael Parkinson, he was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, and like them he inherited a love of cricket. He previously scored for Middlesex and MCC and was scorer for Test Match Special in the West Indies in 1994 and for Pakistan in the 1999 Cricket World Cup. His wife Jennifer (who died in November 2020), was Surrey's Second Eleven scorer.

Booth wrote a history of cricket scoring, biographies of the cricketers Michael Atherton, Ted Pooley, George Lohmann, Ernie Hayes, Walter Read, Tom Richardson and Jack Crawford, as well as a biography of the pioneering cricket and football administrator C. W. Alcock. He also wrote a four-person, three-generation biography of the Hayward family, comprising Daniel Hayward, his two sons Daniel and Thomas, and grandson Tom Hayward. His book about Lohmann won The Cricket Society's Book of the Year award for 2007.[3]

Until 2017, he played for Sutton Cricket Club. He died in January 2024, at the age of 81.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Keith Booth dies aged 81". Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024. (subscription required)
  2. ^ Nagpal, Saurabh (24 August 2023). "Surrey's class of 2003 - where are they now?". Kia Oval. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  3. ^ "The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year". The Cricket Society. Retrieved 13 March 2024.