Matthew Engel

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Matthew Engel is a British writer and editor who began his career in 1972.

He worked on The Guardian newspaper for nearly 25 years, reporting on a wide range of political and sporting events. He now writes a column in the Financial Times and has edited the 1993—2000 and 2004—2007 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, with a short break when he worked in the US. He has been a strong critic of the International Cricket Council, international cricket's ruling body.

He lives in Herefordshire with his wife Hilary and daughter Vika. His son Laurie died of cancer in 2005, aged 13 and Engel set up a successful charity fund in his memory, the Laurie Engel fund which raises money in partnership with the Teenage Cancer Trust to support patient care. The proceeds of a book he wrote, Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan), are donated to this fund.

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