Christopher Marks was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

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. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 and Staffordshire

Staffordshire County Cricket Club

Staffordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Staffordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 during six years in the game of cricket.

Marks first represented the Derbyshire Second XI during the Second XI Championship of 1964, in a defeat against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

's Second XI. His debut first-class match came against an assorted team of Indians

Indian cricket team

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, during an English tour of 1967, and his first County Championship match came a fortnight later against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

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During Derbyshire's steady 1968 season, Marks was a frequent player with the team, but, with Derbyshire in the main failing to ring the changes in 1969, with the notable exception of Test cricketer Mike Hendrick

Mike Hendrick

Michael Hendrick is a former English cricketer, who played in thirty Tests and twenty two ODIs for England from 1973 to 1981...

, their form stumbled, and he was amongst three players to not return for the 1970 season, the others being former Test cricketer Harold Rhodes

Harold Rhodes (cricketer)

Harold James Rhodes, sometimes called Dusty Rhodes is an English former cricketer, who played for England in 1959, for Derbyshire between 1953 and 1975, and for the MCC between 1959 and 1963...

 and captain of four seasons' service, Derek Morgan.

Marks closed his career by playing infrequently for the second team of Staffordshire alongside such players as former Test cricketer Nasim-ul-Ghani

Nasim-ul-Ghani

Nasim-ul-Ghani is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 29 Tests and one ODI from 1958 to 1973. At the time of his debut, aged 16 years, he was the world's youngest test player....

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External links

• Christopher Marks at Cricket Archive