Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke

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Lord Hawke
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type n/a
Tests First-class
Matches 5 633
Runs scored 55 16749
Batting average 7.85 20.15
100s/50s 0/0 13/67
Top score 30 166
Balls bowled 0 20
Wickets 0 0
Bowling average n/a n/a
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling n/a n/a
Catches/stumpings 3/0 209/0

Test debut: 13 February 1896
Last Test: 4 April 1899
Source: [1]

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Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (Gainsborough 16 August 186010 October 1938 in Edinburgh) was an English cricketer and administrator who, Wisden wrote:

strode the cricketing world like a colossus for half a century, as a player and administrator, and one who played a major part in the modernisation of the game.

He captained Yorkshire County Cricket Club for 28 seasons and played in five Test matches, four of which he captained (and all four of which were won).

Hawke was a national selector of the England cricket team for 10 years, and was named one of Wisden's "Cricketers of the Year" in 1909. During the First World War he was president of the Marylebone Cricket Club and a trustee between 1932 and 1938.

He famously said, at the Yorkshire Annual General Meeting in 1925: "Pray God, no professional shall ever captain England. I love and admire them all, but we have always had an amateur skipper[1] and when the day comes when we shall have no more amateurs captaining England it will be a thousand pities."[2]

He succeeded as 7th Baron Hawke in 1887 on the death of his father.

Preceded by
Andrew Stoddart
English national cricket captain
1895/6
Succeeded by
WG Grace
Preceded by
Andrew Stoddart
English national cricket captain
1898/1899
Succeeded by
Archie MacLaren

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ He was not strictly correct in this.
  2. ^ The Cricket Captains of England, Alan Gibson, 1989, The Pavilion Library, ISBN 1-85145-390-3, p154.

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Preceded by
Edward Hawke, 6th Baron Hawke
Baron Hawke Succeeded by
Edward Hawke, 8th Baron Hawke
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