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Vic Marks

Vic Marks
Personal information
Full name Victor James Marks
Born (1955-06-25) 25 June 1955 (age 61)
Middle Chinnock, Somerset, England
Nickname Skid, Speedy
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off break
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 499) 26 August 1982 v Pakistan
Last Test 19 March 1984 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 55) 30 May 1980 v West Indies
Last ODI 4 September 1988 v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
Years Team
1975–1978 Oxford University
1975–1989 Somerset
1981–1989 MCC
1986/87 Western Australia
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 6 34 342 304
Runs scored 249 285 12,419 4,175
Batting average 27.66 13.57 30.29 22.56
100s/50s  –/3  –/– 5/73  –/14
Top score 83 44 134 81*
Balls bowled 1,082 1,838 63,052 13,039
Wickets 11 44 859 286
Bowling average 44.00 25.79 33.28 27.85
5 wickets in innings  – 2 40 3
10 wickets in match  – n/a 5 n/a
Best bowling 3/78 5/20 8/17 5/20
Catches/stumpings  –/– 8/– 145/– 75/–
Source: CricketArchive, 21 December 2008

Victor James "Vic" Marks (born 1955) is a former Somerset and England cricketer, who played in six Tests and thirty four One Day Internationals.

The cricket correspondent Colin Bateman noted that "in typical self-deprecating style, Vic Marks entitled one of his books, Marks Out of XI. He was probably out of the England XI slightly too often. While he was never a fashionable cricketer, he was a determined and highly effective off-spinner-cum-batsman whose Test figures stand comparison with those often picked ahead of him, such as Geoff Miller and Eddie Hemmings". He writes for The Guardian newspaper and reports on Test series whilst summarising for the BBC's TMS.

Born 25 June 1955, Middle Chinnock, Somerset, Marks was educated at Blundell's School and Oxford University, for whom he played between 1975 and 1978 (alongside Imran Khan and Chris Tavaré, and opposite Peter Roebuck of Cambridge University, subsequently Marks' captain at Somerset). Marks captained Oxford University in 1976 and 1977.

Marks made his first-class debut in the 1975 English domestic season, and five years later made his ODI debut against the West Indies. His Test debut was in 1982 against Pakistan.


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