Manny Martindale
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| Full name | Emmanuel Alfred Martindale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 November 1909 St Lucy, Barbados |
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| Died | 17 March 1972 (aged 62) St Peter, Barbados |
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| Nickname | Manny | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 32) | 24 June 1933 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 22 August 1939 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1929/30–1935/36 | Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 12 December 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Emmanuel Alfred "Manny" Martindale (25 November 1909 – 17 March 1972) was a West Indian cricketer who played in ten Tests from 1933 to 1939. He was a right-arm fast bowler with a long run up; although not tall for a bowler of his type he bowled at a fast pace. With Learie Constantine, Martindale was one of the earliest in the long succession of Test-playing West Indian fast bowlers. During the time he played, the West Indies bowling attack depended largely on his success. Critics believe that his record and performances stand comparison with bowlers of greater reputation and longer careers.
Chosen for the West indies tour of England in 1933 despite having played little cricket and being an unknown quantity, he was a great success. He took over 100 first-class wickets and took over half of the West Indies' wickets in the three Tests played. He was the leading bowler when West Indies won their first Test series, against England in 1935–36, and had great success against the leading English batsmen. In the final game of the series, one of his deliveries broke the jaw of Bob Wyatt, the England captain. When he returned to tour England a second time in 1939, Martindale was less successful, but he had by then established himself in League Cricket in England. He moved there to play initially for Burnley Cricket Club, but remained in England for the next 28 years as a professional cricketer. Upon returning to live in Barbados in 1964, Martindale took up coaching. He died in 1972.
In the limited first-class cricket schedule played in the West Indies, Martindale had played in only four matches up to his arrival in England for the 1933 West Indies tour, and had taken only 14 wickets in them, including five in the trial match. He had played so little cricket that few people in the West Indies knew much about him, but his reputation grew very quickly during the tour. As such, his rise to prominence came after he was selected for representative cricket rather than from his early performances for Barbados.
In England, he was spotted very quickly as a potential success: The Times, reporting on the team's first practice the day after their arrival, wrote: "Within the limitations of net-practice (they) showed that in E. Martindale they have a bowler of pace worthy to succeed Constantine and Francis."
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