This year’s Wisden is published tomorrow. Here are Martin’s thoughts on the 148th edition.
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Next Wednesday we will be reviewing Wisden 2011, due for release the following day – in the meantime Martin has been reading about one of cricket’s more interesting characters.
This week we go back more than 75 years and look at a volume of autobiography by Jack Hobbs, first published the year after he retired from the game.
This week English cricket received more sad news with the passing of Fred Titmus – In this feature Martin looks back at his long career
The passing of Peter Loader last week took from us another England player of the 1950s. In this feature Martin looks back at a career that deserves to be better remembered than it is.
England saw all too little of a fit and firing Shoaib Akhtar – Martin looks back at what we did see of a man whose bowling he would have liked to have seen more of.
After a patchy showing in the World Cup so far there can be no better way for England fans to brighten up a grey March day than by reading Gideon Haigh on the magical events of Boxing Day 2010.
It must be a very special book for Martin and Archie to agree on a 5 star rating – but then Ashes 2011 is written by Gideon Haigh.
In ten days time it will be exactly 30 years since Kenny Barrington passed away. In this feature Martin pays tribute to a man he believes history has short-changed.
A change of emphasis for our second book this week as Martin reviews an umpire’s story.