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{{short description|English cricketer, broadcaster and journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Use British English|date=May 2011}} {{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | image = Christopher Martin-Jenkins.jpg | alt = | caption = Martin-Jenkins at the [[Adelaide Oval]], during the [[English cricket team in Australia in 2006-07|England tour of Australia in 2006β07]] |birth_name = Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins | birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|01|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Peterborough]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|1|01|1945|01|20|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Rudgwick]], West Sussex, England | nationality = British | other_names = {{Plainlist| * CMJ * The Major<ref name=guardian_obit/> }} | known_for = {{Plainlist| * ''[[Test Match Special]]'' * ''[[The Cricketer]]'' * President of [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] }} | education = [[Marlborough College]] | alma_mater = [[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|Fitzwilliam College]], Cambridge | occupation = Cricket journalist and broadcaster | years_active= 1967β2012 }} '''Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins''', [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (20 January 1945 β 1 January 2013),<ref name=guardian_obit/> also known as '''CMJ''', was a British [[cricket]] journalist and a President of [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]]. He was also the longest serving commentator for ''[[Test Match Special]]'' (TMS) on [[BBC Radio]], from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal cancer in March 2012.
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