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Among players of 1965-66 to 1971-72: 15th of 49 for runs, 26th of 33 for wickets, 18th of 50 for matches, 5th of 10 for hundreds, 18th of 45 for catches, 14th of 33 for batting average.
Under Fitzroy: 46th of 321 for runs, 129th of 172 for wickets, 54th of 345 for matches, 30th of 50 for hundreds, 48th of 279 for catches, 50th of 126 for batting average.
Career figures combine what's recorded live in Morrie with the club's own historical records — averages are shown only where there's enough real data to be honest about.
1965-66: 80 runs 80 65-66 1966-67: 27 runs 27 1967-68: 202 runs 202 67-68 1968-69: 185 runs 185 1969-70: 284 runs 284 69-70 1970-71: 338 runs 338 1971-72: 27 runs 27 71-72 Wickets by season
1965-66: 1 wickets 1 65-66 1966-67: 0 wickets 1967-68: 0 wickets 67-68 1968-69: 0 wickets 1969-70: 0 wickets 69-70 1970-71: 1 wickets 1 1971-72: 0 wickets 71-72 Every innings, in order
102 50 1965-66 v Footscray: 4 1965-66 v Collingwood: 20 1965-66 v Prahran: 34 1965-66 v North Melbourne: 8 1965-66 v South Melbourne: 14* 1966-67 v Richmond: 0 1966-67 v Richmond: 24* 1966-67 v Carlton: 1 1966-67 v Essendon: 2 1967-68 v Essendon: 33 1967-68 v St Kilda: 17 1967-68 v Richmond: 0 1967-68 v University: 44 1967-68 v South Melbourne: 30 1967-68 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 25 1967-68 v Collingwood: 11 1967-68 v North Melbourne: 23 1967-68 v Carlton: 19 1968-69 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 10 1968-69 v Collingwood: 3 1968-69 v North Melbourne: 84 1968-69 v Carlton: 23 1968-69 v Footscray: 16 1968-69 v Essendon: 10 1968-69 v Essendon: 20* 1968-69 v St Kilda: 2 1968-69 v St Kilda: 12 1968-69 v Richmond: 3 1968-69 v University: 2 1969-70 v Carlton: 42 1969-70 v Carlton: 18 1969-70 v Footscray: 79 1969-70 v Footscray: 1 1969-70 v Prahran: 20 1969-70 v Prahran: 4 1969-70 v Essendon: 6 1969-70 v St Kilda: 7 1969-70 v Richmond: 2 1969-70 v Richmond: 13 1969-70 v University: 0 1969-70 v University: 32* 1969-70 v South Melbourne: 21 1969-70 v South Melbourne: 11* 1969-70 v Melbourne: 0 1969-70 v Melbourne: 7 1969-70 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 21 1970-71 v Footscray: 2 1970-71 v Prahran: 24* 1970-71 v Essendon: 21 1970-71 v Richmond: 102 1970-71 v University: 3 1970-71 v University: 8 1970-71 v South Melbourne: 69 1970-71 v Collingwood: 22 1970-71 v North Melbourne: 20 1970-71 v North Melbourne: 48 1970-71 v Carlton: 19 1971-72 v Essendon: 0 1971-72 v Essendon: 15 1971-72 v North Melbourne: 12 1971-72 v University: 0 Lighter bars are not-out innings. Hover a bar for the match.
Against each club
Sort byOpponent Matches Runs Highest score Batting average Fifties Hundreds Wickets Bowling average Best bowling ↓ Clubs that merged are counted as one, under today's name. Tap a heading to sort; open a club for every match against it.
Splits By batting position Pos Inn NO Runs HS Avg 50s 100s 0s 2 15 1 252 79 18.00 1 1 3 4 0 53 48 13.25 1 4 1 0 8 8 8.00 5 11 3 180 33 22.50 1 6 15 0 389 102 25.93 2 1 2 7 7 0 133 34 19.00 1 8 6 1 103 44 20.60 9 2 1 25 24* 25.00
Inn NO Runs HS Avg 50s 100s 0s Top order (1–3) 19 1 305 79 16.94 1 2 Middle order (4–7) 34 3 710 102 22.90 2 1 4 Lower order (8–11) 8 2 128 44 21.33
Batted most often at 2nd.
Scores and consistency Ducks 6 1–9 17 10–19 14 20–29 13 30–49 7 50–99 3 100+ 1 Turned 1 of 4 fifty-plus scores into hundreds. 11.9% of the side's runs in the innings batted. Top-scored for the side 8 times.
Dismissals Caught 35 · 64% Bowled 9 · 16% LBW 6 · 11% Run out 2 · 4% Stumped 2 · 4% Hit wicket 1 · 2% Most often dismissed by: Paterson (4), Kirby (2), Hosking (2), Cook (2), Jones (2).
In wins and losses Inn NO Runs HS Avg 50s 100s 0s In wins 28 3 527 84 21.08 2 2 In losses 31 2 589 102 20.31 1 1 4 In draws 2 1 27 24* 27.00
M Wkts Avg Wkts / match In wins 1 0 – 0.0 In losses 9 2 61.00 0.2
Scored 50+: the side won 2 of 4 (50%), lost 2. Every other match: the side won 25 of 51 (49%), lost 23. Batting first or second Inn NO Runs HS Avg 50s 100s 0s Batting first 26 2 397 79 16.54 1 6 Batting second 22 0 533 102 24.23 2 1 Second innings of the match 13 4 213 48 23.67
By ground Ground M Inn Runs HS Avg Wkts Bowl avg Best Fitzroy Cricket Ground 27 30 790 102 31.60 1 45.00 1/9 Carlton Cricket Ground 4 4 62 23 15.50 – – 0/8 Essendon Cricket Ground 4 4 54 33 13.50 – – 0/11 University Oval 3 4 13 8 3.25 – – 0/22 St Kilda Cricket Ground 3 3 16
Wickets taken Bowled 1 · 50% Caught 1 · 50% Batters dismissed
Best in a match: 1/21 v Collingwood, 1965-66. Wicket types count only matches where the card's dismissals add up to the bowling figures.
2005-06 to 2010-11 · 50 m · 1,027 runs · 0 wkts
G Hayes 1977-78 to 1981-82 · 49 m · 1,044 runs · 4 wkts JM Harvey 1969-70 to 1984-85 · 51 m · 963 runs · 2 wkts The careers nearest Martin’s in length, runs and wickets a match, average and the balance of batting to bowling.
Most often alongside
Matches in the same side, from the published cards.
The shape of the career Season by season
1965-66: 6 matches, 80 runs, 1 wicket 1965-66 1966-67: 4 matches, 27 runs, 0 wickets · Premiership 1966-67 1967-68: 11 matches, 202 runs, 0 wickets 1967-68 1968-69: 11 matches, 185 runs, 0 wickets 1968-69 1969-70: 10 matches, 284 runs, 0 wickets 1969-70 1970-71: 10 matches, 338 runs, 1 wicket 1970-71 1971-72: 3 matches, 27 runs, 0 wickets 1971-72
1966-67: premiership
The arc
Don Martin's best season with the bat was 1970-71 : 338 runs from 11 innings at 33.80. The best ten-innings patch came in 1970-71 : 336 runs at 37.33. The leanest, 1969-70: 106 runs at 11.78.
Rolling average, innings 6 to 61: 11.8 to 37.3 37.3 Batting average over the last ten innings, at each innings of the career.
Streaks
Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 3 innings from v University, 1967-68 to v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1967-68 · first · last Consecutive matches played: 21 matches from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1968-69 to v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1969-70 · first · last Longest spell without a wicket: 5 matches bowled in from v Prahran, 1965-66 to v University, 1968-69 · first · last Longest run of single figures: 4 innings from v Prahran, 1969-70 to v Richmond, 1969-70 · first · last More splits Batting position over the years 1 6 11 1965-66: 8 (5 inns, avg 20.00) 1966-67: 9 (4 inns, avg 9.00) 1967-68: 7 (9 inns, avg 22.44) 1968-69: 5 (11 inns, avg 18.50) 1969-70: 2 (17 inns, avg 18.93) 1970-71: 6 (11 inns, avg 33.80) 1971-72: 6 (4 inns, avg 6.75) 1965 1967 1969 1971 Moved about the order across 7 seasons: at 6th in 2, at 8th in 1, at 9th in 1, at 7th in 1, at 5th in 1, opened in 1.
Home and away M Inn NO Runs HS Avg Wkts Bowl avg Home 27 30 5 790 102 31.60 1 45.00 Away 28 31 1 353 33 11.77 1 87.00
Home taken as the ground the club played at most in each season: Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Schramms Reserve.
By day M Inn NO Runs HS Avg Wkts Bowl avg Saturday 44 52 5 1,039 102 22.11 2 59.00 Weekday 11 9 1 104 34 13.00
Month by month Month M Inn NO Runs HS Avg Wkts Bowl avg Oct 9 10 1 244 79 27.11 1 57.00 Nov 17 18 1 379 102 22.29 Dec 5 5 1 154 69 38.50 1 21.00 Jan 15 17 3 194 25 13.86 Feb 6 8 0 149 48 18.63 Mar 3 3 0 23 19
Finals 1 Finals played
2 Runs · avg 2.00
M Inn NO Runs HS Avg Wkts Bowl avg Home and away 54 60 6 1,141 102 21.13 2 66.00 Finals 1 1 0 2 2 2.00
Fielding Caught most off
AL Thomson × 9 EP Illingworth × 9 DD Weir × 3 WA Heller Download your career card
Western Oval 3 3 22 16 7.33 – – 0/0
Richmond Cricket Ground 2 3 15 13 5.00 – – –
South Melbourne Cricket Ground 2 3 62 30 31.00 – – –
Victoria Park 2 2 31 20 15.50 1 21.00 1/21
Glenferrie Oval 2 2 46 25 23.00 – – –
Toorak Park 1 2 24 20 12.00 – – –
North Melbourne Cricket Ground 1 1 8 8 8.00 – – –
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote 1 0 0 – – – – –
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AJ Matthews × 1
C Fox × 1 
v Footscray
v Northcote
v Collingwood
v Prahran
v North Melbourne
v South Melbourne
v Richmond
v Carlton
v Essendon
v St Kilda
v University
v Melbourne
v Hawthorn-East Melbourne