Robin Marlar

Robin Marlar

Personal information
Full name	Robin Geoffrey Marlar
Born	1 February 1931 Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm off-spin
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1951–1953	Cambridge University
1951–1968	Sussex
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 289 Runs scored 3033 Batting average 9.72 100s/50s 0/2 Top score 64 Balls bowled 54,450 Wickets 970 Bowling average 25.22 5 wickets in innings 66 10 wickets in match 15 Best bowling 9/46 Catches/stumpings 137/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 6 February 2014

Robin Geoffrey Marlar (born 2 January 1931 in Eastbourne, Sussex) was an English cricketer and cricket journalist. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge.

Marlar played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, winning a blue in 1951, 1952 and 1953 (when he captained Cambridge to victory over Oxford),^[1] and Sussex between 1951 and 1968. An innovative off-break bowler, he took 970 wickets in 289 matches at an average of 25.22, with a personal best of 9/46 against Lancashire at Hove in 1955. He was a "shrewd and skilful" captain of Sussex between 1955 and 1959.^[2] He remains only one of five native-born cricketers to hold this post.

He had a successful journalistic career as an outspoken cricket correspondent of The Sunday Times, and wrote the illustrated history The Story of Cricket (1979).^[3]

Marlar stood as a Conservative candidate for Bolsover in the 1959 General Election, and a 1962 by-election at Leicester North East, then decades later was a parliamentary candidate for the Referendum Party in the 1993 Newbury by-election.^[4] He was appointed as the President of Sussex CCC for 2005 and President of MCC for 2005/2006.

References

1. Wisden 1954, pp. 285-87.
2. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/17328.html
3. Wisden 1980, p. 1222.
4. Newbury by-election 1993

External links

• Robin Marlar at Cricket Archive