No blog on the subject of cricket literature could maintain credibility for too long without looking at the work of John Arlott, hence this week’s post
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The passing of the mercurial Abdul Qadir is sad news for cricket. Six years ago Martin penned a feature about him, and now seems like an appropriate time to restore that to the site’s home page
In a change from the advertised episode we have a piece about CB Fry’s writing. The promised look at John Nyren remains in the course of preparation
To those outside of the sub-continent the name of MV Sridhar is unlikely to be a familiar one, but it seems from Martin’s review that his life story is still well worth a read
As this Gloucestershire story explains the annals of cricket do not always stand up to the closest of scrutiny, and sometimes have to be corrected
The doings of a scratch eleven from the West of England during World War Two is the subject of this booklet from the Gloucestershire Museum
A long look at a cricket publisher again this week, and this time it is the turn of The Cricket Publishing Company
Every County should have a cricket museum, and every cricket museum should publish this sort of gloriously obscure snippet from the game’s past
Martin has admitted to buying this when it first appeared four years ago, but has not yet provided a satisfactory explanation as to why it has taken so long for him to get round to writing a review
With Test matches currently being played in what are considered three of the game’s traditional centres Martin reviews a book on cricket in Western Canada