Martyn Ball

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Martyn Ball (born April 26, 1970 in Bristol) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. He plays for Gloucestershire.

Ball made his first-class debut in 1988 and continued to bowl a trademark floating off-break for several years, and in 1996 was offered his first county cap. Ball was at the forefront of Gloucestershire's rise to the top of the English game, in a county which at the time was producing few top-quality players.

Ball replaced Robert Croft when the latter revealed he was uncomfortable about going to India, but, the selectors preferring players such as Richard Dawson and Ashley Giles, Ball's appearance in the Test game was not to come.

Ball is the chairman of the Professional Cricketers' Association.