Edmund John "Ted" Martin (30 September 1902 – 9 June 2004) was an Australian
cricketer
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who played two first-class matches in 1932–33, both against a
touring English side under the captaincy of
Douglas Jardine, which used
Bodyline tactics. In his first match, for
Western Australia against the tourists, he took three wickets in each innings bowling
leg break
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s, including the wickets of
Herbert Sutcliffe,
Maurice Leyland,
Hedley Verity and the
Nawab of Pataudi
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. In his second match, for an Australian XI against the tourists, he failed to take a wicket, recording figures of 0/126 in his only innings, and making a single run before being stumped by
George Duckworth
George Duckworth (9 May 1901 – 5 January 1966) was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and England.
Duckworth, who won his cricketing fame as a wicket-keeper, was born and died in Warrington, Lancashire, an ...
off the bowling of
Tommy Mitchell.
Martin died in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 101 years and 253 days, making him the fifth oldest first-class cricketer ever, and the oldest ever Australian cricketer, as well as the ninth first-class cricketer, and the first Australian cricketer, to live to be 100 years old. Between the death of
Jim Hutchinson in November 2000 and his own death he was the oldest living first-class cricketer.
Ted Martin dies at 101
– Cricinfo. Written by Christian Ryan. Published 15 June 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
See also
* List of Western Australia first-class cricketers
References
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1902 births
2004 deaths
Australian centenarians
Australian cricketers
Cricketers from Victoria (state)
Men centenarians
Sportspeople from Bendigo
Western Australia cricketers