He is the son of cricket writer and journalist Christopher Martin-Jenkins,[1] and as such has been nicknamed RMJ[2] (a reference to his father CMJ).
These three were among other successes in the first batch of 1997 at Durham University's Centre of Excellence for Cricket, which was led by former test batsman Graeme Fowler.
[3][4] Strauss said that he was helped by Hutton and Martin-Jenkins, as he "gained confidence from the fact that I was not the only person who was prepared to take the risk of jumping off the City-bound conveyer belt.
[8] He was a prominent member of both the 2003, 2006 and 2007 County Championship winning teams; in 2011, Steve James writing in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described Martin-Jenkins and James Kirtley (who also retired in 2010) as "consistent and reliable performers who are role models and guardians of a team ethos that can endure.
[9] He taught at Hurstpierpoint College, and in 2014 he moved to Harrow School, where he teaches Geography and is the house master of Moretons.