| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hubert Melville Martineau | |||
| Born | 24 October 1891 Westminster, London, England |
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| Died | 11 September 1976 (aged 84) Westminster, London, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Left-arm orthodox spin | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1931-1932 | HDG Leveson-Gower's XI | |||
| First-class debut | 27 June 1931 HDG Leveson-Gower's XI v Oxford University | |||
| Last First-class | 29 June 1932 HDG Leveson-Gower's XI v Oxford University | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 3 | |||
| Runs scored | 44 | |||
| Batting average | 11.00 | |||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | |||
| Top score | 19* | |||
| Balls bowled | 126 | |||
| Wickets | 0 | |||
| Bowling average | - | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | 0/1 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 0/0 | |||
| Source: CricketArchive, 12 April 2008 | ||||
Hubert Melville Martineau (24 October 1891-11 September 1976)[1] was an English patron of cricket and organiser of his own team.[2] He also played three first-class matches between 1931 and 1932. When he played, he was a right-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler.[3]
Born in Westminster in 1891,[3] the son of Philip Martineau,[4] Hubert Martineau was educated at Eton, though he did not play for the school's cricket team. He did however develop a great love of the game.[2]
Club cricket of a high standard was played at his private ground near Maidenhead between 1923 and 1939, and four national sides touring England began their tours playing against his personal XI; Australia in 1926, New Zealand in 1927, the West Indies in 1928 and India in 1932.[2] Martineau himself played in all those matches with the exception of the 1926 match against Australia.[5]
In 1927, he went on a tour of Egypt with the Free Foresters, playing two matches against the national side.[5] He took his own team to the country each year between 1929 and 1939,[2] and Martineau played in each match.[5]
He played three first-class matches in the early 1930s, for HDG Leveson-Gower's XI. He played against Oxford University in 1931 and against Cambridge and Oxford University in 1932.[6] He died in Westminster in 1976.[3]