Martin Chandler - ARTICLES

For the second year running David Battersby has self-published a limited edition book about a Cheltenham cricketer to coincide with the town’s festival

More words have been written about the 1932/33 Ashes than any other series of Test matches, so hopefully this guide to what has been published will be of some assistance to anyone interested in learning more about ‘Bodyline’

Interested in ‘Bodyline’?

If so this little bibliographical work might just appeal

Who was the greater writer, Crusoe or Cardus? Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that dead heats happen

This one does not have very much in common with most cricketing biographies, nor indeed cricket books generally, but is still an excellent read

Last year saw the release of a new book about Sydney Barnes – how does Jeff Nicholls’ effort measure up to those of the great medium pacer’s three previous biographers?

Not all modern writers revere Neville Cardus in the way their predecessors did. In this post Martin adds his two penn’orth to a debate that is doubtless going to run and run

A decade ago Monty Panesar seemed almost to be able to walk on water, and then things started to go wrong ……….

In light of of Martin’s closing comment in this one we assume he must have been a fashion icon in his youth, so a call has been sent out for a copy of his graduation photograph, which will be shared immediately it is received

Occasionally a cricketing autobiography comes along that is very different from the norm, and Tatenda Taibu’s contribution to the genre is certainly one of those