Norcross was educated at
Dulwich College, and studied
classics at
St John's College, Oxford. Before working for TMS, he had a series of different jobs, which included playing pub quiz machines, working in the City and for a number of dot-com start-ups, before setting up
Test Match Sofa, an alternative amateur cricket commentary radio programme. Dan has, together with Philip Paine, recently edited a book about the forty-eight casualties listed on the war memorial at Surrey County Cricket Club, The Oval, London. It is called "The 48". He also wrote the Foreword to "The Faintest of Tickles", an anthology of cricket writing by authors and journalists, including, among others,
Ben Macintyre and
Judith Cutler. ==References==