Martin tells us that he is far too young to remember the playing days of the subject of this cricketing biography, even though his enjoyment of the book might suggest that he did see Raman Subba Row bat
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In the days when it was possible to so Stanley Jackson had careers in business, politics and soldiering as well as cricket. In this feature Martin tells his story
Largely forgotten today, between the wars Alan Kippax was one of Australia’s leading batsmen
It’s not even the end of January yet, but already we have our first review of a book published in 2018
With apologies for the slight delay, we now have Martin’s look at recent and forthcoming new titles
Still a candidate for the accolade of England’s finest post war batsman, Peter May is the subject of Martin’s latest feature
Next week we hope to run Martin’s regular update on recently published and forthcoming books, but in the meantime we close the year with a review of a book about which he clearly had mixed feelings
He was a serious business for the unfortunate bowlers who had to try and dismiss him, but Sir Donald Bradman also generated plenty of humour along the way
For anyone who runs out of things to do between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve one idea would be to nip out to your local bookseller and pick up a copy of Patrick Ferriday’s latest book.
The efforts of a handful of devotees have made sure that recent years have seen a steady flow of ‘new’ material from the pen of the most famous cricket scribe of them all. This week Martin takes a look at the fruits of their labours