RONALD CARDWELL is an insolvency practitioner with a lifelong interest in sport. When his playing days were finished he commenced writing and publishing books on cricket. His company, The Cricket Publishing Company, has published 25 books. This year he has co-written, firstly with eminent NZ writer Bill Francis, the well-received The Team That Never Played – Wahine and the 1968 Otago University Cricket Team and the centenary history of the NSW Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association with David Jenkins titled No Dazzling Deeds with Bat or Ball. He is currently a Trustee of the New Zealand Cricketers Hardship Trust and a Vice President of the Australian Cricket Society in Sydney, which he founded in 1972.He is married with four daughters.