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What have they done to Marto?
By Richard Seeckts last year, at the start of July Add your comment below
Bang, bang, bang. On and on everyone keeps going about how the Australian side is finding its feet again after the retirements of a leggie, a quickie, a wicketkeeper and a couple of openers. Fair point, but why does Damien Martyn rarely, if ever, get a mention?
Martyn, for those who have forgotten, was seriously classy. Easy on the eye (and the ear in comparison to the bigger five), he scored 4406 runs at 46.37 in 67 Tests. Maybe our Australian correspondents can tell us why he is so under appreciated. Meantime, I suspect that had Martyn been born English, he would be a national hero with 8,000 Test runs and 120 Tests to his name.
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3 Responses to “What have they done to Marto?”
July 8th, 2009 at 7.29 am
July 8th, 2009 at 9.12 am
A great player, one of my favs. I suspect it was the fact that he retired midway through a series and did so with little comment to the media or fanfare. I think the fact that Hussey came in and started his test career so superbly masked the fact that we’d lost such a class middle order player in Martyn aswell.
I read a recent article from him in which he stated that he was over test cricket, the system and the way players were treated. Apparently he wanted to retire during 2006 after playing the South Africans but was talked into playing on and realised after the Adelaide test of the 06-07 Ashes that he’d made the wrong decision.
July 8th, 2009 at 10.06 am
Martyn has never been forgiven by Australians for Sydney 1993/94 v South Africa. Of course this is entirely unfair, he was no more to blame than the rest of the batsmen but there we have it.
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