- Martin Olive
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Martin Olive Personal information Full name Martin Olive Born 18 April 1958
Watford, Hertfordshire, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Role Batsman Domestic team information Years Team 1977–81 Somerset 1982–87 Devon First-class cricket debut 15 June 1977 Somerset v Glamorgan Last First-class cricket 3 July 1981 Somerset v Surrey List A cricket debut 5 June 1977 Somerset v Glamorgan Last List A cricket 24 June 1987 Devon v Worcestershire Career statistics Competition First-class List A Matches 17 2 Runs scored 467 11 Batting average 15.56 11.00 100s/50s –/1 –/– Top score 50 9 Balls bowled – – Wickets – – Bowling average – – 5 wickets in innings – – 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling – – Catches/stumpings 9/– –/– Source: CricketArchive, 24 February 2011 Martin Olive (born 18 April 1958) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset from 1977 to 1981.[1] He also played Minor Counties and List A cricket for Devon. He was born at Watford, Hertfordshire.
Olive was a right-handed middle-order or opening batsman. He was a successful school cricketer at Millfield School and was playing for Somerset's second eleven at the age of 17. In 1977, he made a single List A appearance and then his first-class debut, playing in a handful of games, and then appeared in the England Under-19 team in one-day international matches.[2] The strength of Somerset's squad restricted Olive's first-team opportunities to a single game in each of the 1978 and 1979 seasons; he did not play any further one-day matches for Somerset. But in 1980, he played in nine first-class games, and in the match against Yorkshire at Weston-super-Mare he made exactly 50, the only first-class half-century of his career.[3] Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, in its report on Somerset in the 1981 edition, said that Olive "did enough to suggest a future as a sound opening batsman".[4]
In 1981, however, Olive was unsuccessful in the three first-class matches in which he appeared, and Jeremy Lloyds became the regular opening batsman for the team. Olive left the Somerset staff at the end of the season and took a job in a building society in Devon: the building society was the target of a hold-up on his first day.[5] In 1982, 1986 and 1987, he played Minor Counties cricket for Devon and in 1987 he made a single List A appearance in the NatWest Trophy, opening the batting for Devon in a heavy defeat against Worcestershire.[6]
As of 2011, he is head of key accounts at Sun Life Financial of Canada, based in Bristol.[7]
References
- ^ "Martin Olive". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3739/3739.html. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
- ^ "Youth One-Day International Matches played by Martin Olive". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3739/Youth_One-Day_International_Matches.html. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Yorkshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1980-08-06. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/40/40514.html. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ "Somerset in 1980". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1981 ed.). Wisden. p. 536.
- ^ David Foot and Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 85.
- ^ "Scorecard: Worcestershire v Devon". www.cricketarchive.com. 1987-06-24. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/48/48833.html. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ "Martin Olive". www.linkedin.com. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/martin-olive/6/921/53b. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
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