He was a serious business for the unfortunate bowlers who had to try and dismiss him, but Sir Donald Bradman also generated plenty of humour along the way
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For anyone who runs out of things to do between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve one idea would be to nip out to your local bookseller and pick up a copy of Patrick Ferriday’s latest book.
The efforts of a handful of devotees have made sure that recent years have seen a steady flow of ‘new’ material from the pen of the most famous cricket scribe of them all. This week Martin takes a look at the fruits of their labours
We have not reviewed a book from the ACS ‘Lives in Cricket’ series for some time, so this week Martin looks at two recent additions, both dealing with Yorkshiremen
We have not reviewed a book from the ACS ‘Lives in Cricket’ series for some time, so this week Martin looks at two recent additions, both dealing with Yorkshiremen
The humble periodical rarely gets much in the way of critical acclaim, and is generally rather better appreciated once it has gone. The history of cricket literature is littered with failed projects, and with a new player in the marketplace with a familiar name there may well be another one joining them soon. So perhaps […]
A book about one of Martin’s favourite cricketers penned by one of his favourite writers was always likely to go down well, and it clearly didn’t disappoint
Although he won’t come out and say so some of us at CricketWeb suspect Martin believes that James Vince’s first Ashes trip is going to be reminiscent of Tip Foster’s memorable visit to Australia in 1903. Why else would he choose now to write about the man who still holds the record for the highest Test score by an Englishman in Australia?
With Archie’s review this week is being of a distinctly mainstream title Martin has dug out something for the hardcore cricketing bibliophile. Surely there can be no other sport where such a good book can be written about the life of a man of such modest achievements?
John Reid first played for New Zealand more than 68 years ago and is his country’s oldest surviving Test cricketer – he is also one of their very best, and in this feature Martin tells his story