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Martin Johnson (23 June 1949 – 13 March 2021) was an English sports journalist who worked as a cricket correspondent of The Independent, sports feature writer at the Daily Telegraph and as a writer for The Sunday Times. [1] [2] Among the sports he covered in addition to cricket were rugby union, boxing, rowing, golf, show jumping and the ...
In cricket, bowlers (spin bowlers even more so than fast or seam bowlers) can telegraph the trajectory and expected landing position of the ball, the likely direction of deviation after pitching, the amount of bounce etc. by allowing the batsman to see their finger position and the seam position of the ball at the time of release.
After retiring from day-to-day cricket reporting, Melford was the ghost writer of Peter May's autobiography A Game Enjoyed. He also continued to write obituaries and to contribute to The Telegraph Cricket Yearbook. He wrote a well-regarded history of post-war cricket entitled After the Interval. [1]
In 1999, he moved to The Daily Telegraph as cricket correspondent, before joining the Daily Mail as a general sportswriter in 2002. He has contributed sporting and general commentary to The Daily Telegraph , and for some time had a sports column on Thursdays and a more general column on Saturdays, but he ceased to regularly contribute to the ...
He was also cricket correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1982 to 1986. [1] He was best known for presenting various programmes for BBC Radio Derby, including Memorable Melodies for over 20 years until 2019. He was always credited as Mike Carey. Alongside his radio work, Carey was an author and a national cricket correspondent. [2]
Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry, known as Scyld Berry (pronounced Shild, [1] born 28 April 1954) is an English journalist and cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. He was editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack from 2008 until 2011. Previously cricket correspondent for the Glasgow Herald, [2] his father was the poet and critic Francis Berry.
He became cricket correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in 1946, remaining in that post until 1975. He was also editorial director of The Cricketer from 1967 to 1988. He toured Australia as a cricket correspondent seven times between 1946 and 1975, but never visited Pakistan to report on cricket, only reported on one Test match in India, and ...
James also played two seasons of domestic cricket in Zimbabwe for Mashonaland in 1993/94 and 1994/95. Since retirement, he has made a career as a journalist, initially covering cricket and rugby for The Sunday Telegraph and occasionally writing for The Daily Telegraph . [ 4 ]