Tony Lewis
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| Full name | Anthony Robert Lewis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 July 1938 Swansea, Wales |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Robert (Tony) Lewis CBE (born 6 July 1938) is a former Welsh cricketer, who went on to become the face of BBC Television cricket coverage in the 1990s, and become president of the MCC.
Lewis was born in Swansea, and attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as BA and later MA. He played county cricket for Glamorgan, and is the only Glamorgan cricketer to captain England. He led the 1972–73 MCC tour of India, Ceylon and Pakistan, playing for England in all eight Test matches. Asked to make himself available to captain England in West Indies in 1974, he declined, retired from cricket and concentrated on writing and broadcasting. After long service to cricket at Lord's – committee work from 1967–2011 – he created and chaired for five years, MCC World Cricket Committee, 2006–2011, opposing all cricket decisions that were led by money, race or religion. He initiated MCC research into the use of a pink ball in Day/Night Test matches. MCC President for two years 1998–2000, during which he joined with his predecessor Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie in the work of securing admission to the Club of women members and he secured their playing programme while Ch. MCC Cricket 2001–2006. He became, in 2011, the 31st Honorary Life Vice-President of MCC to be nominated by the Club, the highest honour possible to award to a Member.
Lewis turned his high profile in cricket and broadcasting to the benefit of his home country, Wales, by chairing the Wales Tourist Board for three terms, the Glamorgan Cricket Club for five seasons, being a Trustee of the new Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay and chairman of the Welsh National Opera Company. Lewis made an important contribution to Welsh golf ambitions by leading the Wales Ryder Cup Bid (2010) and working for University College of Wales, Newport, as a consultant for five years. His sporting contribution continued as captain of Royal Porthcawl Golf Club 2012.
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