Robin Simon Christopher Martin-Jenkins (born 28 October 1975) is an English former

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who played for

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and

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. He is tall. He is the son of cricket writer and journalist

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, and as such has been nicknamed RMJ (a reference to his father

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Early life

Martin-Jenkins was educated at

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and was in the same college house at the same time as cricketers

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and Ben Hutton. These three were among other successes in the first batch of 1997 at

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's Centre of Excellence for Cricket, which was led by former test batsman Graeme Fowler. Strauss said that he was helped by Hutton and Martin-Jenkins, as he "gained confidence from the fact that I was not the only person who was prepared to take the risk of jumping off the City-bound conveyer belt."

Cricket career

Martin-Jenkins played his entire first-class career for

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, except for one first-class match for

in 1996. He scored his maiden first-class century in 2001, and in 2002, he and Mark Davis scored a record eighth-wicket partnership for Sussex of 291, and Martin-Jenkins also hit his career best score of 205 *. As of 2015, this is still the highest eighth-wicket partnership for Sussex. He was a prominent member of both the

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and 2007 County Championship winning teams; in 2011, Steve James writing in the ''

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'' described Martin-Jenkins and James Kirtley (who also retired in 2010) as "consistent and reliable performers who are role models and guardians of a team ethos that can endure." He described Martin-Jenkins as "the most solid of all-rounders".

Retirement and post-retirement

In July 2010, Martin-Jenkins announced his retirement at

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on 19 July 2010, in order to become a teacher. In his final season, he averaged 62.90 with the bat, and took 30 wickets at an average of under 20 runs per wicket. He taught at Hurstpierpoint College, and in 2014 he moved to

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, where he taught

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and was the house master of Moretons. Before moving on to become Head of Geography at Bede's Senior School in 2023, of which its junior school, Bede's Prep School was where his father, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, was an alumni. In 2015, Bede's Prep School opened a new stand in memory of

, and Robin Martin-Jenkins rang the bell to signal the start of play.

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