So the year has begun in a sad way with back to back deaths of two famous cricket-related personalities. Christopher Martin Jenkins fondly known as CMJ lost his battle against cancer on New Year’s Day at the age of 67. He was diagnosed with terminal aggressive cancer in January 2012. Although unlike Greig, CMJ did not play cricket at the highest level he was respected as a writer and commentator. His son Robin played for Sussex
He had a distinguished career in the media spanning 4 decades. CMJ worked as a cricket correspondent for the BBC between 1973 and 1980 and again from 1985 until 1990, as well as for the Daily Telegraph between 1990 and 1999 and the Times between 1999 and 2008.
He was also MCC President from 2010 to 2011. In 2007 he became the only career journalist and broadcaster to deliver the annual Marylebone Cricket Club Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, an honour that ranked him alongside the likes of Desmond Tutu, Imran Khan, and Richie Benaud. In 2009 he was awarded an MBE.
Despite his terminal illness, he continued to write for the Times right up to the final days of his life. Reflecting on the death on 28th December from a heart attack of his fellow cancer-sufferer Greig, CMJ observed that “it was probably for him a merciful release because the late stage of any cancer is often hell on earth”.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins, legend of TMS, has died aged 67 | Mail Online
I thought Pak commentator Iftikhar Ahmed or ‘Ifti’ copied CMJ’s style or atleast sounded very much like him
Another man that made cricket special.