Martin Chandler - ARTICLES

May06

The Indefatigable Thomson

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The usual reason for buying a book is to provide a source of entertainment or to acquire knowledge. This one does both, and as a bonus your hard earned will support a very worthy cause

May06

Revolution ’97

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Sussex supporters of a certain age will doubtless remember it well, but for those of us who don’t fall into that category here is an interesting reminder of the off field events that transformed the club a couple of decades ago

April22

Imperfect

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This week Martin reviews another autobiography of an Indian cricketer, and finds it is anything but just another autobiography by an Indian cricketer

April16

9-86 And All That

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As a breed fast bowlers generally seem to be much more interesting characters than those who specialise in other cricketing disciplines. Pakistan’s 1970s paceman Sarfraz Nawaz is a typical example

April15

Ambassadors of Goodwill

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It has been a while now since we had a new cricket book from Pitch Publishing, but this review of England’s Test tours in the quarter century after the Second World War is right up to their usual high standard