Martin Chandler - ARTICLES

With Mankading back in the news after last week’s incident involving Joss Buttler we take the chance to look at the history of this controversial mode of dismissal

There have been books aplenty written about Lord’s, and this week Martin reviews the latest, an interesting variation on the theme

Whilst not revered to quite the same degree as Bedi, Chandra and Prasanna, Srinivas Venkataraghavan was a fine cricketer, who also deserves to be remembered

This week brings a second five star book in a month for Martin as John Wisden and Co publish another fascinating piece of historical research

In the third, but not quite final part of his feature on the Holy Trinity, Martin tells the story of offspinner Erapalli Prasanna

In the second part of his feature on the Holy Trinity Martin tells the story of the mercurial wrist spinner, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar

Eager anticipation can sometimes lead to disappointment but not, it would seem, on this occasion

A series of three features on India’s famous spin bowling triumverate on the 1960s and 1970s begins with slow left armer Bishan Bedi

Ewen Chatfield, aka Mer, Charlie or plain old Chats, is one of New Zealand’s most enduring cricketing characters. In this feature Martin looks back at his time in the game

With more comebacks than Frank Sinatra, Ted Dexter kept the back pages in business for almost forty years. In this feature Martin looks back at his life and times.