Patrick Kidd is an English journalist, author and blogger specialising in sport generally, and cricket and rowing in particular.
Kidd attended Colchester Royal Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics.
He also wrote a light-hearted personal blog, The Questing Vole, about politics, history, culture and sport, in which he described himself as "a 1920s eccentric trapped in the body of a 21st-century journalist.
Kidd's first book, Best of Enemies: Whingeing Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies, was released in early 2009.
As a child, his family lived on Mersea Island, off the coast of Essex in a semi-detached villa.