This week we are delighted to have our first guest post on the blog. It is from Christopher O’Brien whose specialist subject is Neville Cardus
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Cricket writers usually operate alone and, if truth be told, it seems that the pair that made up this long running double act generally did as well
This week Martin looks at an Indian periodical that shares its name with the best cricket magazine of them all and, to be fair, loses little in comparison to Rowland Bowen’s masterpiece
Since 1901 Wisden has stood alone as cricket’s leading annual – in this post Martin has a look at some Victorian rivals that the almanack had to see off along the way
In his time the subject of this week’s post was one of the most prolific writers on the game albeit not, perhaps, one of the best. Nonetheless Home Gordon’s story is an interesting one
In this post Martin takes a look at a magazine on the subject of something very close to his heart, the future of the Lancashire County Cricket Club
South Africa has not produced too many noted cricket scribes and, technically, did not produce this gentleman either, but we are still going to treat him as the first noted South African writer on the game
Following on from his post about Rowland Bowen a couple of weeks ago Martin, as promised, now profiles his enduring gift to all cricket tragics and bibliophiles
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