Damien Martyn

Damien Martyn
Personal information
Full name
Damien Richard Martyn
Born (1971-10-21) 21 October 1971 (age 52)
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
NicknameMarto
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleTop-order batter
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 353)27 November 1992 v West Indies
Last Test1 December 2006 v England
ODI debut (cap 109)8 December 1992 v West Indies
Last ODI5 November 2006 v West Indies
ODI shirt no.30
T20I debut (cap 8)17 February 2005 v New Zealand
Last T20I24 February 2006 v South Africa
T20I shirt no.30
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1990/91–2006/07Western Australia
1991Leicestershire
2003Yorkshire
2010Rajasthan Royals
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 67 208 204 299
Runs scored 4,406 5,346 14,630 8,644
Batting average 46.37 40.80 49.25 42.79
100s/50s 13/23 5/37 44/73 10/61
Top score 165 144* 238 144*
Balls bowled 348 794 3,365 1,549
Wickets 2 12 37 41
Bowling average 84.00 58.66 42.24 31.70
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/0 2/21 4/30 3/3
Catches/stumpings 36/– 69/- 158/2 104/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  Australia
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 1999 England-Wales
-Ireland-Scotland-Netherlands
Winner 2003 South Africa-Zimbabwe-Kenya
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 12 May 2019

Damien Richard Martyn (born 21 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He played for the national team sporadically in 1992–1994 before becoming a regular ODI player from 1999 to 2000 and a regular Test player in 2000 until his retirement in late 2006. He was primarily a right-handed middle-order batsman with a 'classical' technique, known in particular for his elegant strokemaking square of the wicket on the off-side and through the covers. Martyn was a member of the Australian team that won two consecutive world titles in a row: the 1999 Cricket World Cup, the 2003 Cricket World Cup, as well as being a member of the team that won the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.

Martyn was also an occasional medium-pacer and distinguished fieldsman primarily in the covers who was capable of creating spectacular run-outs. He also very occasionally kept wicket at first-class level. He was named man of the series in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in 2004, to help Australia defeat India on the subcontinent for the first time in more than 30 years, and was named in early 2005 as the Australian Test Player of the Year at the annual Allan Border Medal presentations.