- Charles Marriott
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- See also Charles Marriott (Tractarian).
- For the rugby union international please see Charles Marriott.
Charles Marriott Personal information Full name Charles Stowell Marriott Born 14 September 1895
Heaton Moor, Stockport, EnglandDied 13 October 1966 (aged 71)
Dollis Hill, London, EnglandNickname Father Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right arm leg break International information National side England Only Test (cap 270) 12 August 1933 v West Indies Domestic team information Years Team 1919–1921 Lancashire 1920–1921 Cambridge University 1924–1937 Kent Career statistics Competition Test First-class Matches 1 159 Runs scored 0 574 Batting average 0.00 4.41 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 Top score 0 21 Balls bowled 247 37,176 Wickets 11 711 Bowling average 8.72 20.11 5 wickets in innings 2 48 10 wickets in match 1 10 Best bowling 6/59 8/98 Catches/stumpings 1/– 47/– Source: Cricinfo, 30 October 2009 Charles ("Father") Stowell Marriott (14 September 1895, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Lancashire – 13 October 1966, Dollis Hill, Middlesex) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. His birth was registered as "Charlie Stowell Marriott".
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Life and career
Marriott was one of the best leg break and googly bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Lancashire, he went to school at St Columba's in Ireland, coming back to Lancashire to play in his first first-class match in 1919. He then went on to Cambridge, winning blues in 1920 and 1921. After Cambridge, he went on to become master in charge of cricket at Dulwich College, a post that allowed him to play for Kent County Cricket Club in the school holidays from 1924 to 1937. He continued to be successful, and this led to his call-up for the England Test team for the Oval Test against the West Indies in 1933. He took 5 for 37 in the first innings, and 6 for 59 in the second as the Windies lost by an innings and 17 runs in two days and ten minutes, but he played no more Test cricket after that.[1]
He remains the only One-Test wonder to have taken more than seven wickets in the history of Test cricket.[1] Whilst his only Test appearance took place close to his 38th birthday, Marriott was a less than capable fielder and batsman. He scored a mere 574 first-class runs compared to his 711 wicket tally.[1]
Marriott toured abroad twice, first with the Honourable Lionel Tennyson's team that toured South Africa in 1924-25, and second with Douglas Jardine's official MCC team to India in 1933-34. There were three Test matches on this latter tour but he did not play in them. He did enjoy some successes though, and took a hat-trick against Madras (now Chennai).
Marriott was an anti-aircraft gunner in the Home Guard in World War II.[1]
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Categories:- 1895 births
- 1966 deaths
- Cambridge University cricketers
- England Test cricketers
- English cricketers
- Kent cricketers
- Lancashire cricketers
- Free Foresters cricketers
- British Home Guard soldiers
- British Army personnel of World War II
- People from Heaton Moor
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