Christopher Martin Jenkins comes to the Steyning Festival
A very popular event in the Festival Literature programme has been a special cricket match at Steyning Cricket Club followed by a talk and book signing by a well known author with a cricketing connection.
Enthusiasts of the game will be delighted to see that this year’s post-match guest author is the well-known cricketing personality Christopher Martin-Jenkins who will be at the club on Sunday 13th June at 7pm talking about his latest book The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time.
About his book
Publication Date: May 2010, £8.99
‘This book makes for a splendid magic trick, as its words inform, entertain and enrich the reader.’
All About Cricket
‘Christopher Martin-Jenkins brings his unrivalled experience and passion for the game to bear in the corridors of power, the Test match arena and county grounds.’ The Times
‘Elegantly written, concise and thorough - a delicious provocation for any cricket fan.’
Patrick Compton, The Mercury
The definitive list of the game’s greatest-ever players, from cricket’s Test Match Special commentator and Times journalist, updated following England’s Ashes victory.
With every cricket season that passes, the roll-call of great players gets longer. Batsmen, bowlers, fielders, wicket-keepers, captains, characters. Every year more international cricket is played by more countries, making the task of ranking the best of them harder than it has ever been. And how do you compare a dazzling Twenty20 specialist of the modern era with a champion of the age before Test cricket officially started in 1877?
Christopher Martin-Jenkins MBE has commentated for BBC Radio 4’s Test Match Special since 1973. During that time he has also been editor of The Cricketer, cricket correspondent for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and The Times, and perennial winner of The Wisden Cricketer best cricket writer poll. He has written a number of acclaimed books, including Men for All Seasons, An Australian Summer and the bestselling Complete Who’s Who of Test Cricketers.
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