lastagainst deliveries lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor debutagainst country club fivefor batting name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate role source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
surrey worcestershire balls & ndash ; & ndash ; 3 july 24 june 1977 1977 2 9 & ndash ; / & ndash ; & ndash ; / 1977 87 2011 & ndash ; 81 1982 & ndash ; 18 april 1958 & ndash ; & ndash ; glamorgan glamorgan england somerset devon & ndash ; & ndash ; right-handed martin olive martin olive somerset somerset watford , hertfordshire , england first-class list a 15 june 5 june batsman http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/3/3739/3739.html cricketarchive first-class list a 1981 1987 467 11 1958 4 18 yes & ndash ; & ndash ; somerset devon & & ndash ; ndash ; / 1 & ndash ; / 17 2 martin olive

martin olive

martin olive -lrb- born 18 april 1958 -rrb- played first-class and list a cricket for somerset from 1977 to 1981 .
he also played minor counties and list a cricket for devon .
he was born at watford , hertfordshire .
olive was a right-handed middle-order or opening batsman .
he was a successful school cricketer at millfield school and was playing for somerset 's second eleven at the age of 17 .
in 1977 , he made a single list a appearance and then his first-class debut , playing in a handful of games , and then appeared in the england under-19 team in one-day international matches .
the strength of somerset 's squad restricted olive 's first-team opportunities to a single game in each of the 1978 and 1979 seasons ; he did not play any further one-day matches for somerset .
but in 1980 , he played in nine first-class games , and in the match against yorkshire at weston-super-mare he made exactly 50 , the only first-class half-century of his career .
`` wisden cricketers ' almanack '' , in its report on somerset in the 1981 edition , said that olive `` did enough to suggest a future as a sound opening batsman '' .
in 1981 , however , olive was unsuccessful in the three first-class matches in which he appeared , and jeremy lloyds became the regular opening batsman for the team .
olive left the somerset staff at the end of the season and took a job in a building society in devon : the building society was the target of a holdup on his first day .
in 1982 , 1986 and 1987 , he played minor counties cricket for devon and in 1987 he made a single list a appearance in the natwest trophy , opening the batting for devon in a heavy defeat against worcestershire .
as of 2011 , he is head of key accounts at sun life financial of canada , based in bristol .
