Andrew Hignell

Andrew Hignell is the 1st XI Scorer and Archivist to Glamorgan County Cricket Club which is Wales' sole representative in county cricket. He read Geography at Exeter University, before undertaking a Ph.D in the subject at Cardiff University and subsequently taught at schools in Devon, Somerset and South Wales, besides working for BBC Radio Wales on their coverage of Glamorgan cricket. In 2004 Andrew took up his full-time post with Glamorgan and oversaw the creation of the CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket at the Club's headquarters in Cardiff. In 2014 the Museum won the Kieran Hegarty Memorial Prize for Innovation at the Celtic Media Festival, whilst in 2018 it became the first fully-accredited cricket museum in the UK. Andrew is the author of over 30 books on cricket and is acknowledged as the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales.