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Christopher Martin-Jenkins
English cricketer, broadcaster and journalist
Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, MBE (20 January 1945 – 1 January 2013),[1] also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio, from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal cancer in March 2012.
Early life
Christopher Martin-Jenkins was born at his grandmother's house in Peterborough, the second of three boys.[2] His father, a lieutenant colonel in the army at the time, relocated the family to Glasgow where he was stationed. After demobilisation he returned to his job at the shipping firm Ellerman Lines where he subsequently became chairman.[3] His mother was a radiologist and GP, working in the Gorbals during the war.
School
He went to St Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne and then to Marlborough. He first played for the school team in 1962 under
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- Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, MBE (20 January – 1 January ), [1] also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio, from until diagnosed with terminal cancer in March
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- viii, 439 pages [8] pages of plates: 24 cm "Christopher Martin-Jenkins, or CMJ to his many fans as well as listeners of Test Match Special, is perhaps the voice of cricket; an unparalleled authority whose insight and passion for cricket as well as his style of commentary have captured what it is that makes the sport so special.
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- This is a frank and open autobiography from a man who was lost to his much-loved wife and family as well as a huge extended family of cricket lovers at far too early an age, dying only shortly after completing the book and his much deserved stint as President of MCC.
| CMJ was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio. | |
| EW Swanton called his autobiography Sort of a Cricket Person (or "Sort of a Cricket Peron" as one newspaper amusingly misprinted the title), and Christopher, his disciple, terms his A Cricketing Life. | |
| This is a frank and open autobiography from a man who was lost to his much-loved wife and family as well as a huge extended family of cricket lovers at far too. |
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- 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.