Martin Love

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Martin Love
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Martin Love
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
Last Test: 25 July 2003
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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.

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