Famous Cricketers No 90 - Roy Edwin Marshall

c P.M.Walker b Majid Khan 70 194/8d 141/3 555. Hampshire v Gloucestershire, Portsmouth, August 19, (20), 21 (Match drawn) * 191/5 1 556. Hampshire v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, August 22, 24, 25 (Hampshire won by nine wickets) * b D.J.Brown 3 218 140 did not bat - 155/1 229 557. Hampshire v Leicestershire, Southampton, August 29, 31, September 1 (Match drawn) * lbw b J.Birkenshaw 6 394/9d 175 355 558. Hampshire v Somerset, Bournemouth, September 2, 3, 4 (Somerset won by 6 wickets) * b P.J.Robinson 65 311 211 did not bat - 135/2d 239/4 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 24 40 2 1497 189* 39.39 2 9 10 Other Hampshire match 1 1 0 93 93 93.00 - 1 - Season 25 41 2 1590 189* 40.76 2 10 10 Career 558 975 46 33143 228* 35.67 63 173 284 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Other Hampshire match 16 10 7 1 1/5 7.00 - - Career (6 ball) 1920.4 588 } 5092 176 6/36 28.93 5 - (8 ball) 73.5 16 1971 - in England Richard Gilliat succeeded Marshall as captain of Hampshire this year. He led with great aplomb but the team was in transition and did well to finish ninth in the county championship. Relieved of his responsibilities as skipper, Marshall batted with much of his old fluency and flair although he was now 41 years old. He added three centuries to his tally and surpassed 50 on seven other occasions. He batted brilliantly against the touring Pakistanis at Portsmouth in May, scoring 122 out of 216 and reaching his century in three hours despite nursing a strained rib muscle. One of his finer efforts came at Swansea in early June when he struck 13 fours in a brisk 97. His unbeaten 103 against Sussex at Hove four weeks later occupied only 135 minutes and, in Wisden’s words, contained “drives square of the wicket and into the covers such as are very rarely seen.” He finished the season with a glorious century at Surrey’s expense. This took him beyond 1,500 runs for the twelfth time in his seventeen years with the county. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 559. Hampshire v Oxford University, The Parks, April 28, 29, 30 (Hampshire won by an innings and 123 runs) c B.May b S.C.Corbett 33 386/9d 200 63 560. Hampshire v Northamptonshire, Southampton, May 1, 3, 4 (Northamptonshire won by six wickets) b Mushtaq Mohammad 3 286/5d 270/7d c G.Sharp b Mushtaq Mohammad 52 156 174/4 561. Hampshire v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c J.D.Bond b P.Lever 33 216 255 c H.Pilling b D.P.Hughes 20 176/3 562. Hampshire v Pakistanis, Portsmouth, May 12, 13, 14 (Match drawn) b Intikhab Alam 122 269 274 did not bat - 145/3 272/7d 563. Hampshire v Northamptonshire, Northampton, May 19, 20, 21 (Hampshire won by ten wickets) b P.Willey 13 215 155 did not bat - 102/0 158 2 54