A good bowler rather than a great one, Peter Lever was nonetheless one of Martin’s childhood heroes, and in this feature he tells his story
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Encouraged by Pratyush’s review last week Martin has been casting his eye over a new book from India
Despite the burden of a decade of Tory misrule there were some things in the 1980s that could take Martin’s thoughts away from the subject of how to change the world. Foremost amongst them was David Gower’s batting
In this feature Martin looks back at the life and times of a fine West Indian opening batsman, Jeff Stollmeyer, whose contributions at the top of the batting order were vital to the first great West Indian team
It is remarkable how strong some memories remain despite the passing of almost half a century – one of Martin’s most vivid recollections is of the batting of Zaheer Abbas at Edgbaston in the summer of 1971
Next week we hope to feature our Book of the Year celebration for 2017. In the meantime Martin reviews a book which, had CW been around in the 1940s, would certainly have picked up the title in 1941
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
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