Joseph Marlow was an English

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 cricket

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er who played 24 first class matches for Derbyshire between 1879 and 1886.

Marlow was born at Bulwell

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, Nottinghamshire

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. In 1878 he played a match for Buxton

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 against a touring Australia team, where he opened a 22-man batting line up scoring one and five, and took one wicket. He made his first class debut for Derbyshire in the 1879 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1879

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 against Nottinghamshire

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 in July, when he took three wickets. However he did not play for Derbyshire again until the 1883 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1883

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. In the 1883 season he played five matches for the county in which he took a respectable number of wickets, most notably against Sussex with 6 for 27 and another 4 to make a ten wicket match. His most successful season of 1884

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1884

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, saw him play twelve matches and take 34 wickets at 19.97. He took 5 for 43 against MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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, 5 for 31 against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 which included a hatrick, 5 for 40 against Surrey

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 and his career best of 7 for 46 against Yorkshire

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. He played four matches in the 1885 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1885

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 and two in the 1886 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1886

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 but did not show the same level of performance.

A right-arm medium pace bowler, Marlow took 60 first class wickets at 20.61. His right-handed batting scored 317 runs in 45 first class innings at 7.92.

Marlow umpired one match between his county and a touring Australian side in 1886. He also returned to Derbyshire for a non-first-class in 1890, struggling with both bat and ball.

Marlow died at Bulwell at the age of 68.

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