Martin Francis Kent was born on 23 November 1953 and is a former Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches and five One Day Internationals in 1981.
28 Facts About Martin Kent
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Martin Kent played ten tests and 20 ODIs for the Australian XI during World Series Cricket.
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Martin Kent was born in North Queensland, and grew up in Monto from the ages of four to fourteen.
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Martin Kent recalled " I was probably a better bowler in my youth than a batsman" and made the State Schoolboys side for Central Queensland.
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Martin Kent gave up cricket for a year to play baseball with the Redcliffe Whitesox.
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Martin Kent found the going harder throughout the rest of the season, although he did manage 58 against Western Australia and 59 against South Australia.
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Martin Kent had frequently batted with Greg Chappell and received an offer to tour South Africa with an invitational XI, the International Wanderers.
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Martin Kent married just before he left and honeymooned on the tour.
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Martin Kent originally declined as it meant he would have to give up his job with the transport company TNT.
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Martin Kent allowed the cricketer to continue working at TNT for part of the year on his full salrary and play World Series Cricket.
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Martin Kent kept his spot for the third supertest, with innings of 43 and 40 helping Australia win the game.
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Martin Kent endured a poor run of form until he scored 114 against the World XI and 55.
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Martin Kent eventually got back in the Australian XI for some one day games with a top score of 62.
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Martin Kent was back in the Australian XI test side for the last supertest - the final, against the World XI - but failed twice.
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Martin Kent's knock of 41 in the McDonald's Cup Final, helping Queensland win the game, won him Man of the Match Award.
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Martin Kent was selected in the Australian one day team towards the end of the summer, making scores of 12,33 and 4.
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Greg Chappell elected not to tour and Kim Hughes thought at the beginning that Martin Kent was the most likely candidate to replace him at number three.
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Martin Kent was 12th man in the famous third test, which England won.
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Martin Kent eventually hit form with 92 against Worcestershire.
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Martin Kent turned out to be one of Australia's best performing batsmen in the second half of the tour, with a consistent string of scores.
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Martin Kent made 171 runs, including a fifty as a makeshift opener at the Oval.
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Martin Kent made 46 and 10 in the 4th test, 52 and 2 in the fifth and 54 and 7 in the 6th.
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Martin Kent withdrew from cricket for the season then in August 1982 retired altogether.
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Martin Kent was a fine slip catcher, taking 60 catches in all.
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Martin Kent briefly returned to cricke in April 1987 to play a charity match at the WACA.
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Martin Kent scored 67 but his back was in severe pain the next day.
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Martin Kent was assistant coach for the Queensland cricket side in the early 1990s.
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Martin Kent later ran a pub in Toowoomba and worked as secretary manager of the Queensland Cricketers' Club.