Martin Olive (born 18 April 1958) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset from 1977 to 1981.[1] He also played Minor Counties and List A cricket for Devon. He was born at Watford, Hertfordshire.

Martin Olive
Personal information
Full name
Martin Olive
Born (1958-04-18) 18 April 1958 (age 66)
Watford, Hertfordshire, England
BattingRight-handed
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1977–1981Somerset
1982–1987Devon
First-class debut15 June 1977 Somerset v Glamorgan
Last First-class3 July 1981 Somerset v Surrey
List A debut5 June 1977 Somerset v Glamorgan
Last List A24 June 1987 Devon v Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 17 2
Runs scored 467 11
Batting average 15.56 11.00
100s/50s –/1 –/–
Top score 50 9
Balls bowled
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 9/– –/–
Source: CricketArchive, 24 February 2011

Olive was a right-handed middle-order or opening batsman. He was a successful school cricketer at Millfield School and was playing for Somerset's second eleven at the age of 17. In 1977, he made a single List A appearance and then his first-class debut, playing in a handful of games, and then appeared in the England Under-19 team in one-day international matches.[2] The strength of Somerset's squad restricted Olive's first-team opportunities to a single game in each of the 1978 and 1979 seasons; he did not play any further one-day matches for Somerset. But in 1980, he played in nine first-class games, and in the match against Yorkshire at Weston-super-Mare he made exactly 50, the only first-class half-century of his career.[3] Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, in its report on Somerset in the 1981 edition, said that Olive "did enough to suggest a future as a sound opening batsman".[4]

In 1981, however, Olive was unsuccessful in the three first-class matches in which he appeared, and Jeremy Lloyds became the regular opening batsman for the team. Olive left the Somerset staff at the end of the season and took a job in a building society in Devon: the building society was the target of a holdup on his first day.[5] In 1982, 1986 and 1987, he played Minor Counties cricket for Devon and in 1987 he made a single List A appearance in the NatWest Trophy, opening the batting for Devon in a heavy defeat against Worcestershire.[6]

As of 2011, he is head of key accounts at Sun Life Financial of Canada, based in Bristol.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Martin Olive". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Youth One-Day International Matches played by Martin Olive". www.cricketarchive.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  3. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Yorkshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 6 August 1980. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  4. ^ "Somerset in 1980". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1981 ed.). Wisden. p. 536.
  5. ^ David Foot & Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 85.
  6. ^ "Scorecard: Worcestershire v Devon". www.cricketarchive.com. 24 June 1987. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  7. ^ "Martin Olive". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 23 February 2011.