As readers would expect Martin has been admonished for taking almost a decade to even find out about a biography of Test cricket’s leading wicket taker let alone review it, but he has apologised for his laxity so no further disciplinary action will be taken
In this feature Martin remembers Colin Croft, the sometimes overlooked member of the early West Indian pace quartets
This post takes a look at the life and works of Gerard Martineau, a writer well known in the 1950s and 60s
Martin was not entirely happy when tasked with reviewing this one, but contrary to his expectations seems to have enjoyed what he read
By no means the first book on the subject of Lord’s that is available, it certainly seems that this pictorial offering is one of the best
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
We understand how difficult it is to buy Christmas presents for the true cricket tragic, and for 2019 this one is our best suggestion
Here we have a fascinating monograph on the subject of a little known but still familiar name from the history of Australian fast bowling – Ronald Cardwell and The Cricket Press Pty Ltd really should do this sort of thing more often
Here we review what is, in many ways, the most important cricketing publication of the year
In this post Martin looks at the life and work of AA Thomson, a Yorkshireman from the Cardus school of cricket writing