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
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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
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
The last few months have seen a number of interesting books released, and as long as most of the titles apparently in the offing actually get published that looks set to carry on in the New Year
This post takes a look at the life and works of Gerard Martineau, a writer well known in the 1950s and 60s
Women’s cricket and attitudes towards it have changed a great deal over the years – in this post Martin goes back to 1933 to see how the subject was viewed then
In this post Martin looks at the life and work of AA Thomson, a Yorkshireman from the Cardus school of cricket writing