Alan Lee (cricket writer)
Alan Lee is a prolific writer and author on cricket and horse racing.
He was the cricket correspondent at The Times from 1988 to 1999, and since 1999 he has been that newspaper's horse-racing correspondent. He has authored many books on cricket, including biographies, co-written with the subjects, of David Lloyd, David Gower and Tony Greig. In the field of racing, he wrote a 2002 biography of the jockey Richard Johnson.
In 2001, Lee won the SJA Sports Writer of the Year award.[1] He also won the award for Racing Journalist of the Year in 2003.[2] He headed London Times' cricket coverage from 1988 to 1999 between the stints of two of the biggest names in cricket journalism in the second half of 20th century : John Woodcock was Times' Cricket Correspondent from 1954 to 1988, and Christopher Martin-Jenkins from 1999 to 2008.