Famous Cricketers No 90 - Roy Edwin Marshall

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 28 48 3 1304 160 28.97 3 5 17 Other Hampshire match 1 2 0 189 112 94.50 1 1 1 Season 29 50 3 1493 160 31.76 4 6 18 Career 483 858 39 29750 228* 36.32 60 150 262 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m County Championship 2 0 18 0 - - - - Career (6 ball) 1904.4 578 } 5085 175 6/36 29.05 5 - (8 ball) 73.5 16 1968 - in England Brilliant batting by the young South African, Barry Richards, who joined the Hampshire staff this summer, lifted the county to fifth place in the standings. But the arrival of this star coincided with Roy Marshall’s gradual descent from the high standards he had previously set. For the first time in his Hampshire career, he failed to register 1,300 runs. His season, in fact, began disastrously as he gathered only four runs from his first three innings. His ten innings in the month of May yielded a paltry 116 runs and he demoted himself to the middle of the batting order to allow Richards and Barry Reed to open the innings. They responded immediately with a fine partnership of 182 against Northamptonshire. Marshall achieved but a single century and reached 50 only eight times in 50 innings. His finest efforts came late in the season when he batted brilliantly against the Rest of the World XI and the touring Australians. He was honoured with a selection for the Rest of the World XI which opposed Kent at Canterbury in August but produced nothing of significance in that match. For the first time in his career, too, Marshall did not bowl a single over all season long. During the course of the campaign he became the first West Indian to appear in 500 first-class matches and the first to exceed 30,000 runs. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 484. Hampshire v Sussex, Hove, May (1), 2, 3 (Match drawn) * b J.A.Snow 4 135/9d 140 b J.A.Snow 0 91/3 183/7d 485. Hampshire v Yorkshire, Harrogate, May 4, 5, (6) (Match drawn) * c J.G.Binks b F.S.Trueman 0 122 41/2 486. Hampshire v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, May (11), (13), 14 (Match drawn) * 118/4 487. Hampshire v Glamorgan, Southampton, May 15, 16, 17 (Glamorgan won by two wickets) * lbw b B.Lewis 38 155 82 b D.J.Shepherd 19 106 180/8 488. Hampshire v Middlesex, Bournemouth, May 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) * lbw R.S.Herman 13 148 111/5d 1 c H.C.Latchman b J.S.E.Price 12 139/8d 59/3 489. Hampshire v Gloucestershire, Bristol, May 22, 23, 24 (Hampshire won by five wickets) * lbw b M.J.Procter 4 221 251/9d lbw b M.J.Procter 16 140/5 109 1 490. Hampshire v Northamptonshire, Northampton, May 29, 30, 31 (Match drawn) * b A.J.Durose 10 336/8d 251 did not bat - 154/1d 92/4 491. Hampshire v Kent, Southampton, June 1, 2, 3 (Match drawn) * c Asif Iqbal b J.N.Graham 30 230 148 342/8 492. Hampshire v Somerset, Portsmouth, June 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) * lbw b F.E.Rumsey 8 227 236 c G.S.Chappell b W.E.Alley 9 206/6d 114/8 1 49