As England take on South Africa at Lord’s Martin reviews the biography of a man whose main claim to fame relates to a feat he performed at the famous old ground as long ago as 1899
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Cricket history is littered with family connections, and this new book from James Buttler explores fathers and sons
The records Frank Woolley set are from another time and cannot be judged by the standards of today, but despite that the way he played would have been entirely suited to the 21st century – in this feature Martin tells his story
After World War Two a number of Commonwealth cricketers gave up the possibility of long term Test careers in order to earn a living with English counties – one of the very best of them was Roy Marshall of Hampshire and West Indies
Illustrated by the Andy Murtagh’s forthcoming biography of Colin Cowdrey this week we have Martin’s six monthly look at recent and forthcoming cricket books
Once again demonstrating that he is a sucker for a limited edition this week Martin reviews the latest publication from the Sussex Cricket Museum
In this year’s Wisden Marcus Berkmann described this one as a ‘waste of ink and paper’ – either Martin is a soft touch or Mr Berkmann didn’t read the book, or both
That got your attention. Read on for the story of Peter Burge, who we believe was unrelated to CW’s finest, but as the quote from Mike Atherton demonstrates their personalities are not dissimilar, so perhaps there is a common heritage
Some cricketers lives are more interesting than others – on a scale of 1 to 10 Mike Procter’s was about 9.5 – does his new autobiography do it justice?
In this feature Martin looks back at the life of one of the most combative all-rounders there has been, Eddie Barlow of South Africa, the Rest of the World and Derbyshire