ABOUT US

Ric Finlay has been involved in recording cricket in the public forum since 1983, when he first worked for the ABC in Hobart, Tasmania. Since then, he has regularly scored and provided statistical information for ABC Radio and Television, Channel Seven's C7 cricket telecasts, the ABC Cricket Book, and the Hobart Mercury newspaper.

He is the author of books on Tasmanian representative cricket and Alan Kippax, and is co-compiler, along with David Fitzgerald, of the popular CricketWorld and Tastats computer database, CSW.

Ric has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education from the University of Tasmania, and teaches Mathematics at a Hobart Senior Secondary College. He a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, and the Australian Society of Sports Historians.

Away from cricket and work, he is married with two children, sings tenor in the Hobart Barbershop quartet Acappellago and chorus The Wellingtones, and enjoys relaxing on Tasmania's beautiful East Coast.