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Full name Damien Richard Martyn
Born October 21, 1971, Darwin, Northern Territory
Current age 33 years 265 days
Major teams Australia, Leicestershire, Western Australia, Yorkshire
Nickname Marto
Playing role Higher middle order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height 1.81 m
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 56 89 12 3947 165 51.25 7631 51.72 12 21 454 9 26 0
ODIs 181 157 48 4604 144* 42.23 5884 78.24 5 30 371 18 57 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 2 0 7 4 3.50 9 77.77 0 0 0 0
First-class 188 314 43 13812 238 50.96 42 70 146 2
List A 265 235 61 7488 144* 43.03 9 50 87 0
Twenty-20 2 2 0 7 4 3.50 9 77.77 0 0 0 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 56 348 168 2 1/0 1/4 84.00 2.89 174.00 0 0 0
ODIs 181 794 704 12 2/21 2/21 58.66 5.31 66.16 0 0 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 188 3287 1535 36 4/30 42.63 2.80 91.30 0 0
List A 265 1549 1300 41 3/3 3/3 31.70 5.03 37.78 0 0 0
Twenty-20 2 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Test debut Australia v West Indies at Brisbane - Nov 27-Dec 1, 1992
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Last Test New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Mar 26-29, 2005
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ODI debut Australia v West Indies at Sydney - Dec 8, 1992 scorecard
Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005 scorecard
Twenty-20 Int. debut New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17,
2005 scorecard
Last Twenty-20 Int. England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13,
2005 scorecard
First-class span 1990/91 - 2004/05
List A span 1991/92 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004/05 - 2005
Notes : Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2002
No contemporary cricketer, Tendulkar aside, makes
batting look so simple as Damien Martyn. But it was not always thus.
For the brash 21-year-old who waltzed into the Australian team at
Dean Jones's expense, batting was an exercise in extravagance. To
defend was to display weakness - a policy that backfired in 1993-94
when Martyn's airy square-drive at a crucial moment in Sydney
triggered a five-run defeat by South Africa and a seven-year hitch
to his own promising career. By the time Western Australia, wanting
a pretty face to spearhead their marketing campaign, had made him
captain at 23, Martyn looked a tormented man. All the more
remarkable, then, that he has blossomed into the relaxed, classical,
feathery artist of today. He is an elastic fieldsman, a lively
medium-pacer and an old-style batsman whose first movement is back.
He plays with a high elbow, a still head, a golfer's deft touch, and
has all the shots, including perhaps the most brutal reverse-sweep
in the game. Mostly, though, Martyn sticks to the textbook and
composes pristine hundreds which, like the feats of the best
wicketkeepers, pass almost unnoticed: an observation supported by
the curious fact that, despite a Test average in the fifties, he
reached the age of 30 without winning a Man-of-the-Match award. He
was the quiet man of the 2003 World Cup-winning side, too, playing a
minor role until he spanked 88 not out in the final - with a broken
finger that later kept him out of a West Indian tour
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