Brian Marris

Brian Marris
Personal information
Full name
Brian Alfred Marris
NicknameCurly
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1917–18 to 1919–20Wellington
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 8
Runs scored 126
Batting average 18.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 22 not out
Balls bowled 761
Wickets 24
Bowling average 20.37
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 5/50
Catches/stumpings 8/0
Source: Cricinfo, 8 September 2018

Brian Alfred Marris (born 1896 or 1897;[1] date of death unknown) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1917 to 1920.

Brian Marris, known as "Curly", was a leg-spin bowler and useful batsman.[2] He was educated at Wellington College.[3] During World War I he worked in the Army Department’s Base Records Office in Wellington.[4]

Marris scored 212 for the Old Boys club in a match of senior Wellington club cricket in December 1917.[5] He made his first-class debut for Wellington against Canterbury a few days later, taking three wickets in each innings and batting in the tail.[6] The next season, when the Plunket Shield resumed, he took 5 for 50 against Canterbury, combining with Syd Hiddleston to dismiss Canterbury for 163 in the first innings, but was expensive and wicketless in the second innings when Canterbury scored 303 for 3 and won by seven wickets.[7]

Although he gained substantial turn from the pitch when he bowled, Marris lacked control. He lost his place in the Wellington side during the 1919-20 season and never regained it.[8]

References

  1. ^ Touchline (12 December 1914). "Cricket". Free Lance. p. 20. He was "a boy of 17" in December 1914.
  2. ^ "Promising bats". NZ Truth. 21 November 1925. p. 11.
  3. ^ Touchline (3 March 1916). "Cricket". Free Lance. p. 19.
  4. ^ "[untitled]". New Zealand Times. 18 September 1916. p. 3.
  5. ^ Touchline (21 December 1917). "Cricket". Free Lance. p. 19.
  6. ^ "Canterbury v Wellington 1917-18". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Wellington v Canterbury 1918-19". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  8. ^ Not Out (10 September 1921). "Cricket: Prospects bright". Evening Post. p. 11.