Martin Benkenstein is a former South African 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. A right-hand batsman, he represented both Natal and Rhodesia. He moved from Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

 (then known as Salisbury) to Durban

Durban

Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

 in 1980 around the time of Zimbabwean independence, where he continued to play and coach in club cricket.

Benkenstein's three sons have all gone on to have careers in cricket, his youngest son Dale Benkenstein

Dale Benkenstein

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has played cricket for Natal, Durham, and South Africa, and his other two sons Brett and Boyd have also represented Natal at various times.