There is an expensive John Arlott limited edition on the subject of AEJ Collins’ famous innings, but this is a much better way of finding out more about that remarkable knock
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For collectors with deep pockets Irving Rosenwater’s monographs are fascinating reads as well as a decent investment.
There are booklets out there dealing with the lives of cricketers who never played so much as a single First Class match – this is one of the more interesting
Victor Trumper was not the only great batsman that Australia produced before Don Bradman, but others entitled to be so described seem to be largely forgotten – in this feature Martin looks at one of them, Charles Macartney
Over the next three weeks we are going to review a number of small booklets and pamphlets, adding a new one every two or three days. We begin with one of the best recent examples
Cricket and the Great War has been a recurring theme in the last year or so, and this week Martin reviews another book on the subject
With the passing of Arthur Morris on Saturday another of the game’s links with the 1940s slipped away. In this feature Martin pays tribute to one of cricket’s gentlemen
Doubtless this one won’t be a bestseller, which just goes to show that sales figures are no indication of quality
Integrity is an important characteristic for an Ashes captain and as Martin explains in this feature none have had more of that than Bill Woodfull
Although he played his Test cricket for the country of his birth for Martin and his contemporaries Farokh Engineer will always be as much a part of Lancashire as the Red Rose itself