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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Bapoo Burjorji 'B.B.' Mama''' (April 8, 1924 in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] &ndash; March 18, 1995 in Bombay) was a [[cricket statistician]].<br />
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Bapoo Mama was a major figure in [[Cricket in India|Indian cricket]] statistics in the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and eighties, he contributed columns like ''Follow 'em with BBM'', ''Figures are Fun'', ''Factfile'' and ''Down the Memory Lane'' to prominent periodicals like the ''[[Sportstar]]'', ''Sportsweek'', ''[[Times of India]]'' and ''Pakistan Cricket International''. He was also a regular contributor to the Indian sections in the [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|''Wisden'']]. He served as the official statistician of the national channel [[Doordarshan]] from 1973 to 1988.<br />
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Mama was educated in Bombay but moved to [[Panchgani]] in [[Maharashtra]] in 1948 for reasons of health. He lived most of the rest of his life there. He died following a short illness of intestinal and lung complications.<br />
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==References==<br />
* Obituary in [[Indian Cricket (annual)|Indian Cricket 1996]]<br />
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