Martin Chandler - ARTICLES

The CricketWeb review team is always prepared to take a bit of criticism when it’s properly due, but we won’t have anyone accuse us of favouring the mainstream of cricket publishing in our choice of books

In this feature Martin takes a look at the life and times of the batsman with some of the biggest numbers in the history of the game

This isn’t the first book from Rob Franks exploring one of the byways of the history of New Zealand cricket. It is however the first we have reviewed on CW – it won’t be the last

Wisden apart, there is not much in cricket literature as collectable as Arthur Mailey’s light hearted tour publications, as Martin can explain

Self publishing seems to be on the rise, and as long as this sort of quality is maintained long may that continue

Perhaps he didn’t turn out to be quite as good a batsman as his early career suggested he might become, but John Crawley certainly wasn’t helped by the way England teams were selected in the 1990s. In this feature Martin looks back at a career that might have disappointed at times, but which contained its share of highlights.

Nine years on a follow up to our first ever Book of the Year has been published, so we felt obliged to review it

The weather is getting warmer and, albeit in the UAE, the English season is beginning so, with much good cricket expected, what better place to start than a reminder that the season just gone was a pretty good one

Six Tyldesley’s have turned out for Lancashire, two brothers from Roe Green and four from Westhoughton – three were Test players. This booklet concerns itself in the main with one who wasn’t, but perhaps should have been

There are no prizes for guessing who has spent the last week reading and reviewing a couple of specialist publications on the subject of less well known Lancashire cricketers