Editing Christopher Martin-Jenkins (section)

==Awards and honours==
He was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58929 |date=31 December 2008 |page=18 |supp=y}}</ref>

He was President of MCC for 2010–11, a rare honour for a journalist. His time in office was a difficult one, as it coincided with the £400 million redevelopment plan for Lord's being dropped in favour of something better suited to the difficult economic situation. This led to an as yet unresolved split in the membership between those in favour of the new plan and those who still support the old one.<ref name = "memorial"/>

In 2007 he was invited to deliver the annual [[Colin Cowdrey#Cowdrey Lecture|MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture]], becoming the only career journalist and broadcaster to do so.<ref name="berry"/> As MCC President, in 2011 he invited [[Kumar Sangakkara]] to deliver the same lecture, the only actively playing cricketer to have delivered a Cowdrey Lecture.