Martin Young (cricketer)

Martin Young
Cricket information
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Bowling style Right-arm slow
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 475 2
Runs scored 24555 22
Batting average 30.69 11.00
100s/50s 40/113 0/0
Top score 198 21
Balls bowled 208 -
Wickets 4 -
Bowling average 43.00 -
5 wickets in innings 0 -
10 wickets in match 0 N/A
Best bowling 2-35 -
Catches/stumpings 178/0 1/0
Source: Cricket Archive

Douglas Martin Young (15 April 1924 – 18 June 1993) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. He was a right-handed opening batsman.

Young played for Worcestershire from 1946 to 1948, then for Gloucestershire from 1949 to 1964. He scored 23,400 runs in his career with Gloucestershire, including 40 hundreds. His most prolific year came in 1959 when he managed 2090 runs. It was the second time that he had passed 2000 runs in a season, having also done so in 1955. In 1962 he put on 395 with Ronald Nicholls against Oxford University which remains the highest first-class opening stand by Gloucestershire; Young made his highest first-class score of 198.

After his playing career ended he emigrated to South Africa, where he appeared regularly on radio as a cricket commentator.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Ball by Ball, Grafton, London, 1990, p. 150.
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