Brought up in country South Australia, Lawrie Colliver has been following the game since the summer World Series Cricket started, in 1977-78. He went on to play grade cricket at Tea Tree Gully, then to work as a freelance cricket statistician for Fox Sports (where he is currently head cricket statistician), Macquarie Radio and Network Ten. Lawrie was also a credited ghostwriter on Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story, published by HarperCollins, and as a producer/statistician on three Ashes tours to England.