Christopher Martin-Jenkins A useful cricketer himself in his time, Christopher Martin-Jenkins was employed on the Cricketer by EW Swanton on leaving Cambridge. He joined the BBC sports team in 1970 and commentated on his first international match, an ODI, in 1972. The following year he succeeded Brian Johnston as the BBC's cricket correspondent, a post he held until 1991, with a four-year break between 1981 and 1984. He edited the Cricketer from 1981 to 1991, was cricket correspondent of the Telegraph from 1991-99 and of the Times from 1999-2008. He has been a member of the Test Match Special team since 1973, again with a break between 1981 and 1985, when he was used on BBC TV. He is also a prolific author, and his accounts of the 1973-74 West Indies tour, Testing Time, and the 1974-75 series in Australia, Assault On The Ashes, set the tone for more than three decades of quality output.
The Round Table: Ian Chappell, Michael Holding and Tony Greig examine the development of unusual cricketers
