CMJ

A Cricketing Life

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857200839
• Print ISBN:
  9781849832687

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, or CMJ to his many fans as well as listeners of Test Match Special, was perhaps thevoice of cricket; an unparalleled authority whose insight and passion for cricket, as well as his style of commentary, captured what it is that makes the sport so special. In his many years as a commentator and journalist - reporting for the BBC, The Times and the Cricketeramong others - CMJ covered some of the biggest moments in the sport's history. And in this memoir he looks back on a lifetime spent in service to this most bizarre and beguiling of sports and tells the stories of the players, coaches and fans he met along the way. Recounted with all the warmth and vigour that has endeared CMJ to generations of cricket fans, this memoir relives the moments that defined modern cricket and which shaped his life in turn. It is a must-have book for all devotees of the sport.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Author biography
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• 1 Summer’s Lease
• 2 Hooked
• 3 Family Matters
• 4 Eastbourne
• 5 Westborne: Life at Marlborough
• 6 Cambridge
• 7 The Cricketer Magazine
• 8 Off to the Beeb
• 9 Test Match Special – Commentators
• 10 From Brown to Boycott
• 11 The West Indies
• 12 A Second Family
• 13 Books and Speeches
• 14 County cricket and the Daily Telegraph
• 15 Australia Then and Now
• 16 India
• 17 Pakistan
• 18 New Zealand
• 19 Sri Lanka
• 20 South Africa
• 21 The Times
• 22 Sparkling Teams and Champagne Moments
• 23 Change – But Not All Decay
• 24 Sussex and England
• 25 R.M-J
• 26 Playing the Game
• 27 From Cricket to Golf
• 28 Faith
• 29 Confessions
• 30 Crises – and Consolations
• 31 Frustrations
• 32 Cricket’s Future
• 33 MCC President
• 34 A Bend in the River
• Index
• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations