James Marshall (cricketer)

James Marshall

Personal information

Full name

James Andrew Hamilton Marshall

Born

15 February 1979
Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

Right-arm medium

Role

Batsman

Relations

HJH Marshall (twin brother)

International information

National side

New Zealand

Test debut (cap 230)

26 March 2005 v Australia

Last Test

23 May 2008 v England

ODI debut (cap 140)

26 February 2005 v Australia

Last ODI

1 July 2008 v Ireland

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1997–present

Northern Districts

2002–2003

Buckinghamshire

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	List A
Matches	7	10	111	130
Runs scored	218	250	5,461	4,189
Batting average	19.81	25.00	29.84	36.42
100s/50s	0/1	1/1	10/27	6/28
Top score	52	161	235	161
Balls bowled	–	–	549	289
Wickets	–	–	4	4
Bowling average	–	–	81.00	67.25
5 wickets in innings	–	–	0	0
10 wickets in match	–	–	0	n/a
Best bowling	–	–	1/5	1/20
Catches/stumpings	5/–	0/–	109/–	46/–

Source: CricketArchive, 4 April 2009

James Andrew Hamilton Marshall (born 15 February 1979) is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of Hamish Marshall.

The versatile James Marshall can play as both opener and middle-order batsman. He opened the batting for his province Northern Districts until 2004–05, and it is at the top of the order that he has had his major successes at first-class level since he made his debut in 1997–98. But it was as a middle order player that he made his One Day International debut for New Zealand against Australia in February 2005. Just weeks later he was called into the team for the third Test against Australia - but this time as an opener. His twin brother Hamish played both matches.

When James made his Test debut, he had a batting average of 28.70, but he was picked on potential rather than his track record, the same as Hamish. Technique was also a major factor in the New Zealand selectors' decision to ask James to open once again.

Marshall made his Test debut against Australia on 26 March 2005. He and his brother Hamish became the second pair of twins (after Mark and Steve Waugh) to play Test cricket.^[1]

On 1 July 2008, he scored his maiden ODI century, eventually getting dismissed for 161 against Ireland. He shared in a 266 opening stand with Brendon McCullum, which is the highest ODI partnership for any wicket in Black Caps history and the second highest opening partnership in all ODIs.

James Marshall also played for Northland in the Hawke Cup.

Marshall spent a number of his early domestic winters playing club cricket in England in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, initially with Formby cricket club on Merseyside, then moving to neighbours Northern in 2004 and helping them to their Premier League championship success the following year 2005.

In 2013, he ended his cricket career as leading run-scorer for Northern Knights at the one-day level, having scored 3,755 domestic runs as well as first batsman to score 6,000 runs for them. With 126 Plunket Shield matches, he holds a record for most first-class appearances by a domestic player for a single province in New Zealand.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

International centuries

One Day International centuries

One Day International centuries of James Marshall
No.	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result	Ref.
1	161	10	Ireland	Aberdeen, Scotland	Mannofield Park	2008	Won	^[6]

Sources

Player profile: James Marshall from ESPNcricinfo
Player profile: James Marshall from CricketArchive
James Marshall at New Zealand Cricket Players Association

References

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