Not many of us get to celebrate our 100th birthdays, but today for, we believe, the first time, that landmark has been reached by a noted cricket writer

Next week we shall have a post on the subject of ‘The Cricket Quarterly’, but before doing so we decided it would be sensible to provide this pen portrait of its proprietor

Not many cricket writers in the 1960s had cause to be pleased with a review of their work by Rowland Bowen – Ralph Barker was one of the few