THE CRICKETER - CENTENARY QUIZ: 1960s

HUW TURBERVILL: It became apparent that the company could not stay afloat just through the magazine. The Cricketer Cup for public school old boys had started in 1968; then the Village Cup was Ben Brocklehurst's brainchild in 1972

HUW TURBERVILL: During the 1960s The Cricketer – now fortnightly – was kept on its toes by a spritely rival, Playfair Cricket Monthly, until the former bought out the latter in 1973

HUW TURBERVILL: The consortium Test Match Extra - led by chairman Neil Davidson, who had fulfilled the same role at Leicestershire CCC and Lord Marland of Odstock, who had challenged Giles Clarke for the chairmanship of the ECB - took charge

HUW TURBERVILL: The magazine was based at Great Portland Street in the 1960s and CMJ joined as assistant to the deputy. That was upgraded within a month thanks to the resignation of Irving Rosenwater

HUW TURBERVILL: For eight years, between 2003 and 2011, this magazine was not called The Cricketer, but The Wisden Cricketer. That is because The Cricketer, the organ of Pelham Warner, EW Swanton, CMJ and co, merged with Wisden Cricket Monthly

HUW TURBERVILL: "The Cricketer," explains accomplished author Stephen Chalke, "was not vibrant in the 1950s. It was dull to look at, and it did not contain a great deal of good writing"

HUW TURBERVILL: Food rationing had been introduced, Neville Chamberlain was going to be replaced by Winston Churchill before long, and The Cricketer needed help from contributors to keep afloat

HUW TURBERVILL: Bodyline put Pelham Warner in a difficult position. He was ‘editor’ of The Cricketer (officially anyhow); still cricket correspondent of the Morning Post; and had to try to keep his captain Douglas Jardine in line in Australia

HUW TURBERVILL: Christopher Martin-Jenkins departed in 1991, and owner Ben Brocklehurst felt he needed a famous face involved, and he had one as his son-in-law

HUW TURBERVILL: Unsurprisingly with Pelham Warner at the helm, The Cricketer in its early years was a fairly august organ, a publication of record, regarded as the voice of the Establishment. Its closest progenitor was Cricket, edited by CW Alcock

Editor Simon Hughes hosts a walk down memory lane, exploring the way in which the magazine covered some of the most famous events in cricket history, its various owners down the years, and the impact of its heavyweight editors

In 2021, The Cricketer magazine celebrates its centenary. To mark the occasion, we're asking county fans to nominate their team's stand-out XI since 1921.

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