Martyn Moxon
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| Martyn Moxon | ||||
 England |
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Martyn Douglas Moxon | |||
| Born | 4 May 1960 | |||
| Barnsley, England | ||||
| Role | Batsman | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| Test debut (cap 520) | 24 July 1986: v New Zealand | |||
| Last Test | 10 August 1989: v Australia | |||
| ODI debut (cap 79) | 23 January 1985: v India | |||
| Last ODI | 19 March 1988: v New Zealand | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1981–1997 | Yorkshire | |||
| 1982–1984 | Griqualand West | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODI | FC | LA | |
| Matches | 10 | 8 | 317 | 256 |
| Runs scored | 455 | 174 | 21161 | 7813 |
| Batting average | 28.43 | 10.00 | 42.83 | 34.41 |
| 100s/50s | 0/3 | 0/1 | 45/116 | 7/51 |
| Top score | 99 | 70 | 274* | 141* |
| Balls bowled | 48 | – | 2650 | 1500 |
| Wickets | 0 | – | 28 | 34 |
| Bowling average | – | – | 52.89 | 35.85 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | – | 0 | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | – | – | 3/24 | 35.85 |
| Catches/stumpings | 10/– | 5/– | 218/– | 88/– |
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As of 19 August 2007 |
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Martyn Douglas Moxon (born 4 May 1960 in Barnsley, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer who played ten Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England. On 8 May 2007 Moxon was confirmed as Director of Pro Cricket at Yorkshire CCC.
Before turning professional he worked for Barclays Bank.
Moxon earned 10 caps through his Test career that was delayed by injury. He was due to play against the West Indies in 1984 but a cracked rib meant that his debut was delayed until the 1986 series against New Zealand. In the intervening time, Moxon was chosen for the 1984/5 tour of India and Sri Lanka, but the premature death of his father forced him to miss early matches, by which time, Tim Robinson had cemented his place as Greame Fowler's opening partner. Moxon did have the honour of making his Limited Overs International debut later in the tour.
When his Test debut finally did come, he took his chance well. As Graham Gooch's fourth opening partner of the Test and LOI summer, Moxon took on a New Zealand side that boasted the great Richard Hadlee. Wisden Cricket Monthly described Moxon as batting with "little panache, but a lot of polish" during a maiden innings of 74, which was ended when a Hadlee off cutter squeezed through his gate. In the second innings at Lord's and during the second Test at Trent Bridge, Moxon was unable to build on his promising start, and was left out of the side for the Oval, having scored 111 runs in his first 4 innings, at an average of 27.75.
The winter touring party for the trip to Australia in 1986/7 was far from settled in advance. Chris Broad was recalled after a two year absence, Wilf Slack brought back having missed all but one Test during the summer and Bill Athey was included as an 'auxiliary' batsman. The choice of two left-handers at the top of England's order highlighted the fact that Australia's big threat came from the battery of left arm seamers available to them, led by Bruce Reid. In the event, Slack played very little cricket. Both Athey and Broad flourished as an opening pair, Broad going on to be named as the International Cricketer of the Season. Moxon had to wait until the last Test of 1987 for a recall. Such were England's selectoral uncertainties that Tim Robinson had been recalled again in the intervening time.
Moxon is known as perhaps the unluckiest member of the '99 club' in that early in his innings against New Zealand in 1987-88 he swept three runs seemingly off the middle of the bat only for the umpire to signal leg byes. Moxon fell for 99 and would become one of eight Test batsman to make 99 but not a century.
Moxon's County career spanned 17 seasons with Yorkshire where he scored over 21,000 First-class runs. He began his career with two centuries in his first two home County Championship matches and it was not long before his elegant driving saw him earmarked for England honours. He established a reliable opening partnership with Ashley Metcalfe and later captained the County with dignity.
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