Tony Lewis
Welsh born, English Test and County cricketer, administrator (born 1938)
Anthony Robert Lewis CBE (born 6 July 1938) is a Welsh former cricketer, who captained England. He later became a journalist, hosting BBC Television cricket coverage between 1986 and 1998, and became president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Early life
Tony Lewis was born in Swansea, the first of two children of Wilfrid Lewis and his wife Marjorie (née Flower). The family moved to Neath after the Second World War. Following his service in the war as a major, Wilfrid managed an insurance office in Neath, and then joined the Civil Service.
Tony Lewis attended the Gnoll School in Neath and Neath Grammar School for Boys, where he learned to play the violin exceptionally well and was selected to play first violin for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, as well as playing cricket and rugby for the school. He represented the Welsh Secondary Schools v England Schools at cricket for five years and captained his country for three of them. In rugby football he made his first-class debut for Neath at the age of nineteen and followed up with a full season for Gloucester, as well as representing thereafter the Royal Air Force, Cambridge University and Pontypool. He also played cricket for the Royal Air Force and Combined Services. At Christ's College, Cambridge, he read History in which he graduated as BA and MA. In his first university year he was a freshman double blue in rugby union and cricket.
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