deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting image name lasttestyear column international source runs testdebutyear wickets s/s matches article_title
208 - 2 178/0 1/0 1946 0 n/a right-arm slow english 0 - right-handed batsman cricket_no_pic . png martin young 1964 first-class list a true http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/34/34153/34153.html cricket archive 24555 22 1946 4 - 40/113 0/0 475 2 martin young -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

martin young -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

douglas martin young -lrb- april 15 , 1924 - june 18 , 1993 -rrb- was an english cricketer who played for gloucestershire and worcestershire .
he was a right-handed opening batsman .
young played for worcestershire from 1946 to 1948 , then for gloucestershire from 1949 to 1964 .
he scored 23,400 runs in his career with gloucestershire , including 40 hundreds .
his most prolific year came in 1959 when he managed 2090 runs .
it was the second time that he had passed 2000 runs in a season , having also done so in 1955 .
in 1962 he put on 395 with ronald nicholls against oxford university which remains the highest first-class opening stand by gloucestershire ; young made his highest first-class score of 198 .
after his playing career ended he emigrated to south africa , where he appeared regularly on radio as a cricket commentator .
