In this post Martin revisits the life of one of his favourite cricket people, this time armed with some material that has not previously seen the light of day
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Martin is always on the look out for the unusual, and finding a copy of an obscure Australian biography of a Yorkshire amateur who played for the county briefly in the late 1940s has given him a great deal of pleasure
This booklet, the latest from Red Rose Books, is probably one for Lancastrians only. Even then it will not be to all tastes, but unsurprisingly Martin seems to have enjoyed it
Our second Indian published book this week is not as ambitious a project as the first, but nonetheless it would seem that Martin enjoyed it rather more
Our first new Indian book this week is an ambitious project and a bulky tome but, it seems, not one which Martin found entirely satisfying
No blog on the subject of cricket literature could maintain credibility for too long without looking at the work of John Arlott, hence this week’s post
The passing of the mercurial Abdul Qadir is sad news for cricket. Six years ago Martin penned a feature about him, and now seems like an appropriate time to restore that to the site’s home page
In a change from the advertised episode we have a piece about CB Fry’s writing. The promised look at John Nyren remains in the course of preparation
To those outside of the sub-continent the name of MV Sridhar is unlikely to be a familiar one, but it seems from Martin’s review that his life story is still well worth a read
As this Gloucestershire story explains the annals of cricket do not always stand up to the closest of scrutiny, and sometimes have to be corrected