• Damien Martyn joins ICL
• Damien Martyn says good bye to Cricket!
• Aussies accused of misbehaviour with Sharad Pawar
• Aussies too good for India yet again!
• Classy Martyn helps Aussies overcome England’s challenge
• Aussies lift the DLF Cup with a comprehensive 127-run victory
• Damien Martyn returns for the VB Series

Damien Martyn: The Man for the Moments

By Karthik Narayan

A martin is a bird that builds its nest the hard way, mostly where humans live, in buildings. Damien Richard Martyn is like a bird, he flies every now and then for his great catches and he also builds his innings with the bat slowly. Elasticity was found in inanimate things in the late 20^th Century, but amongst humans, the elastic Damien Martyn was born on 21^st October 1971 at Darwin. He is so elastic in the field, stretching every limb to its edge and maybe even further.

Martyn came into the scene in 1992-93, when he got a hitchhike from Dean Jones, now a famous commentator, at his expense though! The lean patch and age of Dean Jones helped Martyn get a break into a team where one has to fight for a place in the side and further survival!

While one majestic square drive from the bat of Ian Bradshaw has been talked about so highly, the very same square drive was nearly the Waterloo for this simple yet stylish in his own way - right-handed batsman. In the 2nd test at Sydney in 1993-94 against the Proteas, he made that very extravagant drive…the drive drove him back to the drawing room. He was ousted from the team immediately. The Aussies don’t like losing, and they lost that test by a narrow margin of 5 runs! Chasing just 117 runs for an important test win, the Aussies collapsed just 7 runs short of victory. Damien would never have been so crossed with himself. Timid McGrath could not last that final frontier of 7 runs and gone, the Aussies had lost at home! Read More

Statistics of Damien Martyn's Career :

 
    M    I   NO    Runs   HS    Ave     SR    100   50   Ct  St
   67   109  14    4406  165   46.37  51.42    13   23   36   0

     O    M     R    W    Ave     BBI    5  10    SR     Econ
    58   16    168   2   84.00    1-0    0   0  174.00   2.89

    M    I   NO  Runs   HS    Ave    SR    100  50   Ct  St
   208  182  51  5346  144*  40.80 77.73     5  37   69   0

    O     M    R     W    Ave    BBI    4w  5w   SR    Econ
  132.2   2   704   12   58.66  2-21     0   0  66.16  5.31