Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Christopher Martin-Jenkins at the Adelaide Oval, during the England tour of Australia in 2006–07.

Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins MBE, also known as CMJ (born 20 January 1945, Peterborough), is a cricket journalist and Past President of the MCC. He is also a commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio.

Martin-Jenkins was educated at Marlborough before going up to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He joined the TMS team in 1973, aged 28. While captain of cricket at his school, Marlborough, 11 years earlier, Martin-Jenkins wrote to Brian Johnston asking him how to become a cricket commentator.

At various times, Martin-Jenkins has been cricket correspondent for the BBC (1973-1980, 1985-1991), the Daily Telegraph (1990-1999) and The Times (1999-2008). Mike Atherton replaced him as The Times' Chief Cricket Correspondent on 1 May 2008; CMJ was to continue contributing to The Times' cricket pages. He was also a commentator on BBC television for their cricket coverage between 1981 and 1985, before returning to radio. His journalistic talents were encouraged by E. W. Swanton, joining The Cricketer magazine as his assistant editor. From there, he joined the BBC Sports News department, and was appointed cricket correspondent in succession to Brian Johnston in 1973. He was also editor of The Cricketer from 1980, and President of The Cricket Society (1998-2008). As a player, he made 99 for Marlborough against Rugby School at Lord's and was later in the Surrey second XI.

He is the author of The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.^[1] He served as President of the MCC 2010-11.

Martin-Jenkins' son, Robin Martin-Jenkins, played county cricket for Sussex before retiring in 2010.

Footnotes

1. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 18. 31 December 2008.

External links

• BBC profile of CMJ
• CMJ making an "unfortunate fishing analogy". See also legover.
• Debrett's People of Today

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Name	Martin-Jenkins, Christopher
Alternative names	Christopher Martin-Jenkins Esq MBE
Short description	Cricketer and journalist
Date of birth	20 January 1945
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