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Revision as of 20:37, 24 June 2006 by Gaius Cornelius (talk | contribs) (Delete duplicate word using AWB)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins (known as CMJ) is a cricket journalist and commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio 4.
CMJ was born on 20 January 1945. He was a student at Marlborough and then Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Martin-Jenkins 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, the Daily Telegraph and The Times. He was also editor of The Cricketer. As a player, he made 99 for Marlborough against Rugby School at Lords and was later in the Surrey second XI.
CMJ has also been known as "Jenkers" (see Peter Baxter (ed, 1981) Test Match Special and Oxford '-er'). There are suggestions in The Alderman's Tale (1991), the memoir of fellow commentator, Don Mosey (1924-99), that CMJ's presence in the commentary box was an occasional source of friction to some of his colleagues (though equally Mosey seems to have had a chip on his shoulder regarding the operation of what he saw as an old boy network within the BBC).
Martin-Jenkins' son, Robin Martin-Jenkins, plays county cricket for Sussex.
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