- Sidney Martin
Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Sidney Martin
female =
country = South Africa
fullname = Sidney Hugh Martin
nickname =
living =
dayofbirth = 11
monthofbirth = 1
yearofbirth = 1909
placeofbirth =Durban
countryofbirth =South Africa
dayofdeath = 13
monthofdeath = 2
yearofdeath = 1988
placeofdeath = Frankston,Melbourne , Victoria
countryofdeath =Australia
heightft =
heightinch =
heightm =
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right-arm medium
role =
club1 = Natal
year1 = 1925/26–1946/47
club2 = MCC
year2 = 1929–1930
club3 = Worcestershire
year3 = 1931–1939
club4 = Rhodesia
year4 = 1947/48–1949/50
deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = FC
matches1 = 267
runs1 = 11,511
bat avg1 = 27.02
100s/50s1 = 13/68
top score1 = 191*
deliveries1 = 36,939
wickets1 = 532
bowl avg1 = 28.31
fivefor1 = 21
tenfor1 = 6
best bowling1 = 8-24
catches/stumpings1 = 159/0
date = 5 August
year = 2008
source = http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/5/5163/5163.htmlSidney Hugh Martin (
11 January 1909–13 February 1988) was aSouth Africa ncricketer who played 267 first-class games in both South African and English cricket. He was the uncle of South AfricaTest cricket erHugh Tayfield .Martin made his first-class debut in the Currie Cup for Natal against Eastern Province in March 1926, taking two second-innings wickets including that of
Arthur Ochse . [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11789.html |title=Eastern Province v Natal in 1925/26 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] He played two more games (both also against Natal) the following season, taking six wickets in the first match and scoring 64not out in the first innings of the second game. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12193.html |title=Natal v Eastern Province in 1926/27 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12198.html |title=Natal v Eastern Province in 1926/27 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ]In 1929 Martin made his debut in England, playing for MCC against Oxford University at Lord's, [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/13/13141.html |title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Oxford University in 1929 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=
CricketArchive ] and although he returned to Natal during the English winters,Obituary. "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack " 1990.] he played no further cricket outside England until after theSecond World War .He appeared quite regularly for MCC in 1929 and 1930; his best bowling return for them was the 7-43 he claimed in the first innings against the Royal Navy in July 1929, [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/13/13186.html |title=Royal Navy v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1929 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] while his highest score was the 97 he made against the Army in August 1930. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/13/13661.html |title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Army in 1930 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ]In 1931 Martin made a rather low-key Worcestershire debut, taking two wickets and scoring 4 against the New Zealanders. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/13/13831.html |title=Worcestershire v New Zealanders in 1931 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=
CricketArchive ] He began hisCounty Championship career the following season, and remained a stalwart of the side until the outbreak of war. He just failed to score his thousand first-class runs for the season in 1932, but reached the landmark every year from 1933 to 1939, while in both 1937 and 1939 he achieved the double. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/5/5163/f_Batting_by_Season.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Sidney Martin |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/5/5163/f_Bowling_by_Season.html |title=First-class Bowling in Each Season by Sidney Martin |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ]His most productive year with the bat was 1935, in which he hit five centuries, including his career best: a first-innings 191* versus Northamptonshire; at one stage Worcestershire had been 26/4. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/15/15566.html |title=Worcestershire v Northamptonshire in 1935 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=
CricketArchive ] As a bowler, he three times took eight wickets in an innings, the best of these returns (and the best of his career) being the 8-24 he claimed against Sussex in August 1939; his match figures were 13-88. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/17/17151.html |title=Worcestershire v Sussex in 1939 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ]The war then intervened, and indeed he never played first-class cricket in England again. His next appearance was back with Natal, playing against Transvaal in a match starting on
Boxing Day 1945; Martin scored 67 but took only one wicket. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/17/17534.html |title=Transvaal v Natal in 1945/46 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] He played a full Currie Cup campaign with Natal in 1946/47, and in November 1946 took 5-32 against Griqualand West. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/17/17892.html |title=Griqualand West v Natal in 1946/47 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] From 1947/48 until the end of his career in 1949/50, Martin represented Rhodesia, now having moved to live there.For them, his best performance was the 6-49 he took against a touring MCC side at Salisbury in February 1949. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/18/18780.html |title= Rhodesia v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1948/49 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ] He captained the Rhodesia team on four occasions. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/cgi-bin/ask_the_player_oracle.cgi?playernumber=5163 |title=Player Oracle |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ]Although he never acted as an umpire in a first-class match, he did stand (with
Paul Gibb ) in Worcestershire's centenary single-innings game against MCC in 1965. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/103/103108.html |title= Worcestershire v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1965 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |publisher=CricketArchive ]Other than his nephew Hugh Tayfield (mentioned above) three of Martin's other relatives played first-class cricket: his son Hugh Martin, and two other nephews
Arthur Tayfield andCyril Tayfield .Notes
References
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