Anybody know where I can score?

Cricket Et Al's Thomas Miles on the evolution of his famous scoresheets and wagon wheels.

There were many outstanding Australian performances on the tour to Sri Lanka, but none so graphic as those of Thomas Miles, now Cricket Et Al’s official statistician. His scoresheets of the First and Second Tests wowed us to such a degree that they inspired cricket’s must-have fashion item - the Usman 232. Here’s Thomas with his.

I’m wearing one right now and it feels so good - like a statistical second skin. Get your own right here. Suitably inspired, we asked Thomas to tell us the story of how scoring came into his life, and never left. Subscriber Jim Maxwell will be pleased to know that it all started with an ABC Cricket Magazine…..

It was an ordinary Sunday autumn morning at the local Lutheran church in Mount Gambier, but this was the unlikely setting of how cricket scoring was introduced into my life.

I was nine, attending a trash and treasure market. Suddenly I caught sight of a magazine with the word “cricket” emblazoned across the cover: it was the 2006/07 edition of the ABC Cricket Magazine. It would become one of the most significant parts of my growing passion for the game.

Being a lover of print media from an early age, numerous aspects of the magazine from the stats, profiles, features and photos caught my attention. Then I saw….the scorecard.