Eric Martin (20 May 1894 – 2 May 1924) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er active 1919–23 who played for

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le ...

. He was born in Barnet and educated at Christ's College, Finchley. He played intermittently for Middlesex between 1919 and 1923 as a lower middle-order batsman without making any real impact. His best score was 64 against Essex at Leyton in 1919, when he helped add 152 for the ninth wicket in an hour and a quarter. He was captain of Finchley CC and a prominent member of the Casuals FC. He was killed in an airplane collision at

Duxford Aerodrome Duxford Aerodrome is located south of Cambridge, within the civil parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly west of the village. The airfield is owned by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and is the site of the Imperial War Mus ...

.Eric Martin at CricketArchive
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