Martin Chandler - ARTICLES

Women’s cricket and attitudes towards it have changed a great deal over the years – in this post Martin goes back to 1933 to see how the subject was viewed then

We understand how difficult it is to buy Christmas presents for the true cricket tragic, and for 2019 this one is our best suggestion

Here we have a fascinating monograph on the subject of a little known but still familiar name from the history of Australian fast bowling – Ronald Cardwell and The Cricket Press Pty Ltd really should do this sort of thing more often

Here we review what is, in many ways, the most important cricketing publication of the year

In this post Martin looks at the life and work of AA Thomson, a Yorkshireman from the Cardus school of cricket writing

This one will be a bestseller whatever the critics say, but it seems from Martin’s review that it is a decent read as well

In this review Martin looks at a newly published biography of the man who, amongst a number of achievements in a number of fields, scored the first First Class double century

Martin takes another look at Neville Cardus this week, but from a slightly different perspective to last time

Here we have a thoroughly researched biography that brings to life the story of an interesting New Zealand Test cricketer from the 1930s – what’s not to like?

Not exactly a cricket book this one, but a thought provoking look at the life of a popular cricketer nonetheless