George Martin was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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Martin made his first-class debut for the team during the 1898 season, against a Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 side who scored four centuries in the match, Martin scoring 3 runs from the tailend and taking a single wicket from 33 overs of bowling.

Martin appeared occasionally in the tailend until the end of the 1898 season, and in his final first-class game, in August 1899, scored 6 not out and 0 not out in the two innings in which he batted. This game also saw him take his best innings analysis of 3-64.

External links

• George Martin at Cricket Archive