Hubert Martineau
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Full name | Hubert Melville Martineau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Westminster, London, England | 24 October 1891||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died |
11 September 1976 84) Westminster, London, England | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Left-arm orthodox spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Biography
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]
References
- ↑ Cricinfo profile
- 1 2 3 4 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1977, Obituaries in 1976
- 1 2 3 CricketArchive profile
- ↑ Philip Martineau at CricketArchive
- 1 2 3 Other matches played by Hubert Martineau at CricketArchive
- ↑ First-class matches played by Hubert Martineau at CricketArchive