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| Full name | Martin Olive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 April 1958 Watford, Hertfordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1981 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1987 | Devon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 15 June 1977 Somerset v Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 3 July 1981 Somerset v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 5 June 1977 Somerset v Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last List A | 24 June 1987 Devon v Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,24 February 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martin Olive (born 18 April 1958) was an English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset from 1977 to 1981. [1] He also played Minor Counties and List A cricket for Devon. He was born at Watford,Hertfordshire.
Olive was a right-handed middle-order or opening batsman. He was a successful school cricketer at Millfield School and was playing for Somerset's second eleven at the age of 17. In 1977,he made a single List A appearance and then his first-class debut,playing in a handful of games,and then appeared in the England Under-19 team in one-day international matches. [2] The strength of Somerset's squad restricted Olive's first-team opportunities to a single game in each of the 1978 and 1979 seasons;he did not play any further one-day matches for Somerset. But in 1980,he played in nine first-class games,and in the match against Yorkshire at Weston-super-Mare he made exactly 50,the only first-class half-century of his career. [3] Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ,in its report on Somerset in the 1981 edition,said that Olive "did enough to suggest a future as a sound opening batsman". [4]
In 1981,however,Olive was unsuccessful in the three first-class matches in which he appeared,and Jeremy Lloyds became the regular opening batsman for the team. Olive left the Somerset staff at the end of the season and took a job in a building society in Devon:the building society was the target of a holdup on his first day. [5] In 1982,1986 and 1987,he played Minor Counties cricket for Devon and in 1987 he made a single List A appearance in the NatWest Trophy,opening the batting for Devon in a heavy defeat against Worcestershire. [6]
As of 2011,he was head of key accounts at Sun Life Financial of Canada,based in Bristol. [7]