Martin Bicknell

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Martin Bicknell England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	4	7
Runs scored	45	96
Batting average	6.42	24.00
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	15	31*
Balls bowled	1080	413
Wickets	14	13
Bowling average	38.78	26.69
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	N/A
Best bowling	4/84	3/55
Catches/stumpings	2/-	2/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Martin Paul Bicknell (born 14 January 1969 in Guildford, Surrey) is a former English cricketer. He played only four Test matches, but the last two, against South Africa in 2003, came ten years after the first two in the 1993 Ashes series.

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.[1] 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.[2] 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 is a sound county batsman formerly with Surrey and now with Nottinghamshire.

Martin lives in Lightwater, Surrey, is married to Lorraine and has two children, Eleanor and Charlotte.

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 9th August 2006 [3], moving on to take up a post at Charterhouse School as the Master in Charge of Cricket.