Vic Marks
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 6 | 34 |
| Runs scored | 249 | 285 |
| Batting average | 27.66 | 13.57 |
| 100s/50s | -/3 | -/- |
| Top score | 83 | 44 |
| Balls bowled | 1082 | 1838 |
| Wickets | 11 | 44 |
| Bowling average | 44.00 | 25.79 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 2 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | 3/78 | 5/20 |
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 8/- |
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Victor James Marks (born June 25, 1955 in Middle Chinnock, Somerset) was a Somerset CCC and England international cricketer at both Test and one-day international level.
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[edit] Career
He was a good all-round cricketer, mainly a right-arm off-spin bowler but also a very effective right-handed batsman in the middle or lower batting order.
Marks made his first-class cricket debut in the 1975 English domestic season, and five years later made his ODI debut against the West Indies. His Test debut was in 1982 against Pakistan.
He went on to play only six Test matches but was an important member of the ODI squad for a number of years, appearing 34 times and taking 44 wickets at the very good bowling average of 25.79.
Marks had a distinguished first-class career between 1975 and 1989, playing for Somerset and Western Australia in the Australian Sheffield Shield competition. In 342 first-class matches he took 859 wickets at 33.28, and scored 12,419 runs at a batting average of 30.29 to show himself as a true all-rounder.
As a cricketer he was widely regarded as popular and well-liked; Wisden editor Matthew Engel labeled him "a mild, nervy, self-deprecating farm boy with an Oxford degree and no enemies".
His nickname 'Skid' is believed to make reference to his rather erratic style of motoring.
[edit] After Retirement
After retiring as a professional cricketer he turned his hand to journalism and broadcasting, and is now a regular summariser on Test Match Special. He writes regularly about cricket for The Observer newspaper.[1] He is currently Chairman of Cricket at Somerset CCC.
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[edit] References
- ^ List of Vic Marks articles: The Observer. Retrieved 31 July 2006.
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| NAME | Marks, Victor James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vic |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Middle Chinnock, Somerset |
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