Alfred Martineau (cricketer)
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Alfred Martineau was an English cricket
er.
Alfred Martineau was educated at Uppingham School
and King's College, Cambridge
. A right-handed batsman and right-arm slow
bowler, he played two first-class
matches for Cambridge University
in 1889. His brother Lionel also played first-class cricket, as did his cousins Hubert
and Philip
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er.
Alfred Martineau was educated at Uppingham School
Uppingham School
Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school of the English public school tradition, situated in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland, England...
and King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....
. A right-handed batsman and right-arm slow
Fast bowling
Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
bowler, he played two first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
matches for Cambridge University
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
in 1889. His brother Lionel also played first-class cricket, as did his cousins Hubert
Hubert Martineau
Hubert Melville Martineau was an English patron of cricket and organiser of his own team. He also played three first-class matches between 1931 and 1932...
and Philip
Philip Martineau
Philip Hubert Martineau was an English cricketer. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he played first-class cricket for the MCC in 1883.-Biography:...
.