Wayne Stuart Martin (born 23 December 1955) is a New Zealand former

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er. He played one first-class and two

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matches between the 1976–77 and 1978–79 seasons.Wayne Martin

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. Retrieved 16 May 2016. Martin was born at Mosgiel in

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in 1955.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 90. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) Described as a "brisk medium pace" bowler, he played club cricket for Taieri and age-group and B team cricket for the Otago cricket team from the 1975–76 season.Wayne Martin
CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2023. He made his senior cricket debut playing for the New Zealand under-23 national side against Auckland in a December 1976 first-class match. Opening the bowling, he took four wickets in Auckland's first innings and made scores of 30 and three runs in the only first-class match of his career, an injury meaning that he was unable to bowl or field in Auckland's second innings.Howarth stars for Auckland, ''

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'', 7 December 1976, p. 48.
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at Papers Past. Retrieved 21 November 2023.)Wayne Martin
CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2023. Later in the season Martin made his representative debut for Otago, scoring 15

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and taking one wicket in a List A match against Canterbury at Carisbrook in March 1977. His only other senior appearance for the side saw him take two wickets and score seven runs in another one-day match against the same side in November 1978.

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* 1955 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers People from Mosgiel {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1950s-stub