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.
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Something unusual this week, and with not too many copies to go round early ordering is essential if disappointment is to be avoided
Although it is not widely available outside New Zealand this biography of that nation’s finest uncapped cricketer would appear to be an excellent book
As England’s World T20 campaign unexpectedly takes off Martin recalls a cricketer from the 1970s who, in his prime, would have relished the game’s shortest format
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the first of two unofficial tours by a team of West Indian cricketers to apartheid South Africa – were they judged too harshly?
Relations didn’t improve any between England and Pakistan after the “Mother-in-law” of all tours, as Martin reminds us in this feature
From Martin’s review this appears to be an interesting book, but possibly not always for reasons the author intended
Some places are much less dangerous than they used to be. For county cricketers the highways and byways of England are an example
Martin had to work hard to find a copy of David Parsons’ first cricket book, but it seems it was well worth the effort
The best “chinaman” bowler the game of cricket has seen is also a one of the sport’s most interesting characters. In this feature Martin tells his story