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Simon Lister

Simon Lister is a cricket writer and senior BBC news producer. His first book, Supercat: The Authorised Biography of Clive Lloyd, was shortlisted for the British Sports Book of the Year Award. His second book, Fire in Babylon, won the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and the British Sports Book Awards Cricket Book of the Year Award. He has been a contributor to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack and has covered the county game for the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years, his magazine column, Eyewitness, appeared in the Wisden Cricketer and its successor, The Cricketer.