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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

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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

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He went to St Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne and then to Marlborough. He first played for the school team in