Vic Marks

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Vic Marks England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
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/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

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.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 After Retirement 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[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.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Somerset CCC

[edit] External links

• Cricinfo
• Cricket Archive

Persondata
NAME	Marks, Victor James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vic
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Middle Chinnock, Somerset
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH