Martin Bicknell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMartin Bicknell
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1969
Place of Birth: Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Martin Bicknell
- Martin Paul Bicknell (born 14 January 1969 in Guildford, Surrey) is a former English cricketer.
- He played in four Test matches, with the last two, against South Africa in 2003, coming ten years after the first two in the 1993 Ashes series.
- England had played 114 matches between his appearances, a record.
- He was considered most unlucky to be constantly overlooked for selection in home Test matches when constantly proving himself a prolific wicket taker in county cricket.He was a very effective medium-fast swing and seam bowler who reached one thousand first-class wickets for his county, Surrey, in 2005, having achieved the milestone in all first-class matches the previous year.
- In 2000 he had match figures of 16-119 for Surrey against Leicestershire at Guildford, the second best match figures ever returned for the county.
- His figures in the second innings were 9-47.
- His best innings figures were 9-45, against Cambridge University at The Oval in 1988. He was also an increasingly useful tail-end batsman, verging on all-rounder status, with three first-class centuries to his name and an average of 24.87. His brother Darren Bicknell was a sound county batsman formerly with Surrey and finishing his career with Nottinghamshire. Bicknell lives in Churt, Farnham, He is married to Sarah, and has four children: Ellie, Charlotte, Mia-May and Millie-Coco. Bicknell was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2001. He made his first-class debut in 1986.
- Having initially intended to cease playing at the end of the 2006 season, he was struck by a series of niggling injuries which forced him to announce an earlier retirement from first-class cricket on 9 August 2006, moving on to take up a post at Charterhouse School as the Master in Charge of Cricket. His autobiography, Bickers.
- was published in 2008.
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