Martin Love
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Martin Love Australia (AUS) |
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Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak | |
Tests | First-class | |
Matches | 5 | 189 |
Runs scored | 233 | 14866 |
Batting average | 46.60 | 49.71 |
100s/50s | 1/1 | 37/69 |
Top score | 100* | 300* |
Balls bowled | - | 30 |
Wickets | - | 1 |
Bowling average | - | 11.00 |
5 wickets in innings | - | - |
10 wickets in match | - | - |
Best bowling | - | 1/5 |
Catches/stumpings | 7/- | 239/- |
Test debut: 26 December 2002 |
Martin Lloyd Love (born March 30, 1974, Mundubbera, Queensland) is an Australian cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 2002 to 2003.
He made 146 for Queensland in the famous 1994-95 Sheffield Shield final when the Bulls won their first 'Shield for 68 years. In 2002 he set a Durham record by making 251. He improved on that with a 273 in 2003.
His Test debut was in the 2002-03 Ashes Series in Australia where he played in the 4th and 5th Tests, making 62*, 6*, 0 and 27. This was followed with a single Test in Barbados (36 & 2) and two Tests against Bangladesh in Australia in 2003 in which he made a duck and 100 not out. Martin Love currently plays cricket for Warwickshire Bears in a deal he signed in October 2006.
On Damien Martyn's return from injury, Love was dropped from the Test squad.