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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|English cricket writer (1897–1976)}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Gerald Durani Martineau&#039;&#039;&#039; (1897 – 29 May 1976) was a prolific [[England|English]] [[cricket]] writer.<br /> <br /> He was born in [[Lahore]] and educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].&lt;ref name=&quot;TC&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;[[The Cricketer]]&#039;&#039;, July 1976, p. 22.&lt;/ref&gt; He was a captain in the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]] in [[World War I]] and authored the &#039;&#039;History of the Royal Sussex Regiment&#039;&#039; (1953).&lt;ref name=&quot;WCA&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;[[Wisden Cricketers&#039; Almanack|Wisden]]&#039;&#039; 1977, p. 1046.&lt;/ref&gt; He worked for many years as a schoolmaster.&lt;ref name=&quot;TC&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> Martineau&#039;s notable works on cricket include &#039;&#039;Bat, Ball, Wicket and All&#039;&#039; (1950), on the history of cricket implements; &#039;&#039;They Made Cricket&#039;&#039; (1956), on innovators in cricket from 1727 up to the first television broadcast in 1938; &#039;&#039;The Valiant Stumper&#039;&#039;, on the history of [[wicket-keeper|wicket-keeping]]; and &#039;&#039;The Field is Full of Shades&#039;&#039; (1946), on early cricketers in the period before 1800. [[John Arlott]] wrote that Martineau&#039;s &quot;sympathy with his subject is sufficiently clear-headed to enable him to write of the early cricketers without sentimentality but with an understanding rarely equalled since [[John Nyren|Nyren]]&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;[[John Arlott]], &quot;Cricket Books, 1950&quot;, &#039;&#039;Wisden&#039;&#039; 1951, p. 987.&lt;/ref&gt; Martineau also contributed to [[E. W. Swanton]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;World of Cricket&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[The Cricketer]]&#039;&#039; magazine.&lt;ref name=&quot;WCA&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> His &#039;&#039;[[Wisden Cricketers&#039; Almanack|Wisden]]&#039;&#039; obituary opines that his books &quot;were not works of much original research&quot; but, &quot;pleasantly written, they were ideally calculated to arouse the interest of the novice and spur him on to try for himself the masterpieces&quot;.&lt;ref name=&quot;WCA&quot;/&gt; Martineau died at [[Lyme Regis]] in 1976 at the age of 79 after a long illness.&lt;ref name=&quot;TC&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Martineau, G. D.}}<br /> [[Category:1897 births]]<br /> [[Category:1976 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:People educated at Charterhouse School]]<br /> [[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]<br /> [[Category:Cricket historians and writers]]<br /> [[Category:Writers from Lahore]]<br /> [[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]<br /> [[Category:Royal Sussex Regiment officers]]<br /> [[Category:British people in colonial India]]<br /> [[Category:Military personnel of British India]]</div>

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