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| Chris Martin | ||||
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Christopher Stewart Martin | |||
| Born | 10 December 1974 | |||
| Christchurch, New Zealand | ||||
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| Role | Bowler | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | New Zealand | |||
| Test debut (cap 211) | 17 November 2000: v South Africa | |||
| Last Test | 20 November 2008: v Australia | |||
| ODI debut (cap 119) | 2 January 2001: v Zimbabwe | |||
| Last ODI | 23 February 2008:v England | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2005–present | Auckland | |||
| 2008 | Wawrickshire | |||
| 1997–2004 | Canterbury | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Test | ODI | FC | List A | |
| Matches | 44 | 20 | 132 | 108 |
| Runs scored | 76 | 8 | 347 | 78 |
| Batting average | 2.30 | 1.60 | 4.03 | 3.71 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 12* | 3 | 25 | 13 |
| Balls bowled | 8,440 | 948 | 25,125 | 5,325 |
| Wickets | 144 | 18 | 416 | 146 |
| Bowling average | 33.25 | 44.66 | 30.70 | 28.71 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 8 | 0 | 18 | 2 |
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | n/a | 1 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 6/54 | 3/62 | 6/54 | 6/24 |
| Catches/stumpings | 9/– | 7/– | 26/– | 22/– |
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Source: CricketArchive, 29 November 2008 |
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Christopher Stewart Martin (born 10 December 1974 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Martin now plays provincial cricket for Auckland, having formerly played for the Canterbury Wizards. He also signed for English county cricket side Warwickshire for their 2008 domestic campaign.
Martin is one of 11 New Zealand Test cricketers to have taken 100 wickets. Although predominantly a Test bowler, Martin moved back into contention for one-day internationals after International Cricket Council rule changes permitted substitutions during games. Although the rule has since been revoked, Martin has remained on the fringes of the ODI squad and was called up to the New Zealand World Cup 2007 squad as a replacement for the injured Daryl Tuffey.
Martin is an archetypal tail-end batsman. Geoffrey Boycott has described his efforts with the willow as "hopeless", while former New Zealand international turned Sky Sports pundit Martin Crowe famously dubbed him 'the worst batsman ever to play the game' and 'the worst batsman in the history of cricket'. In addition to this, Martin has the rather dubious honour of belonging to a select group of cricketers whose statistics of wickets taken exceeds runs scored.
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