deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 36,939 13 february 1988 1 159/0 1925/26 1947/48 -- 1949/50 2008 -- 1946/47 1929 -- 1930 1931 -- 1939 11 january 1909 right-arm medium 6 south africa frankston , melbourne , victoria , australia natal mcc worcestershire rhodesia 21 right-handed sidney martin sidney hugh martin durban , south africa fc http://cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/5/5163/5163.html 1909 1 11 yes 11,511 532 13/68 267 sidney martin

sidney martin

sidney hugh martin -lrb- 11 january 1909 -- 13 february 1988 -rrb- was a south african cricketer who played 267 first-class games in both south african and english cricket .
he was the uncle of south africa test cricketer hugh tayfield .
martin made his first-class debut in the currie cup for natal against eastern province in march 1926 , taking two second-innings wickets including that of arthur ochse .
he played two more games -lrb- both also against natal -rrb- the following season , taking six wickets in the first match and scoring 64 not out in the first innings of the second game .
in 1929 martin made his debut in england , playing for mcc against oxford university at lord 's , and although he returned to natal during the english winters , he played no further cricket outside england until after the second world war .
he appeared quite regularly for mcc in 1929 and 1930 ; his best bowling return for them was the 7 -- 43 he claimed in the first innings against the royal navy in july 1929 , while his highest score was the 97 he made against the army in august 1930 .
in 1931 martin made a rather low-key worcestershire debut , taking two wickets and scoring 4 against the new zealanders .
he began his county championship career the following season , and remained a stalwart of the side until the outbreak of war .
he just failed to score his thousand first-class runs for the season in 1932 , but reached the landmark every year from 1933 to 1939 , while in both 1937 and 1939 he achieved the double .
his most productive year with the bat was 1935 , in which he hit five centuries , including his career best : a first-innings 191 * versus northamptonshire ; at one stage worcestershire had been 26/4 .
as a bowler , he three times took eight wickets in an innings , the best of these returns -lrb- and the best of his career -rrb- being the 8 -- 24 he claimed against sussex in august 1939 ; his match figures were 13 -- 88 .
the war then intervened , and indeed he never played first-class cricket in england again .
his next appearance was back with natal , playing against transvaal in a match starting on boxing day 1945 ; martin scored 67 but took only one wicket .
he played a full currie cup campaign with natal in 1946/47 , and in november 1946 took 5 -- 32 against griqualand west .
from 1947/48 until the end of his career in 1949/50 , martin represented rhodesia , now having moved to live there .
for them , his best performance was the 6 -- 49 he took against a touring mcc side at salisbury in february 1949 .
he captained the rhodesia team on four occasions .
although he never acted as an umpire in a first-class match , he did stand -lrb- with paul gibb -rrb- in worcestershire 's centenary single-innings game against mcc in 1965 .
other than his nephew hugh tayfield -lrb- mentioned above -rrb- three of martin 's other relatives played first-class cricket : his son hugh martin , and two other nephews arthur tayfield and cyril tayfield .
