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December 08, 2006

Australia's stylish middle order batsman, Damien Martyn has surprisingly announced his retirement from all forms of the game today. The announcement from Martyn has come on the same day on which the squad for the third Ashes test at Perth was going to be picked. There were speculation that Martyn would have lost his place after he had scores of 29, 11 and 5 in the three innings of the first two Tests. With plenty of young players knocking the doors of the Australian team with their consistently supreme performances, Martyn has decided to move aside. This ends the career of an often unsung but a very elegant batsman from Western Australia.

Marto as he is fondly called has ended his career with 67 Tests and 208 ODIs besides playing 204 first class games. He had scored 4406 test runs with 13 100s and 23 50s with a healthy average of 46.37. In the 208 ODIs he had played, he has scored 5346 runs at 40.80 average with 5 100s and 37 50s. The 35-year-old Damien Martyn has played county cricket for Leicestershire and Yorkshire in the past. His Test Match Debut was 14 years back against the West Indies at the Gabba while his ODI Debut came in the Benson & Hedges World Series match at Sydney in which he was out for a duck. His last ODI was the ICC Champions Trophy Final against WI. Australia do have plenty of good players to grab Damien Martyn's spot in the team but will they be able to match the style and class of Marto will have to be seen.

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