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| Full name | Bruce Philip Martin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1980-04-25)25 April 1980 (age 44) Whangārei, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Bucko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 259) | 6 March 2013 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 9 October 2013 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999/00–2009/10 | Northern Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010/11–2013/14 | Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Philip Martin (born 25 April 1980) is aNew Zealand international cricketer who playedTest cricket for the national team. At domestic level he played for theNorthern Districts andAuckland in theState Championship andNorthland in theHawke Cup. Martin played as a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler and right-handed batsman.
He was born inWhangārei and attended school inKerikeri in the Bay of Islands.[1]
Martin played three Test matches and nineOne Day Internationals for the New Zealand's under-19 side, was selected for the New Zealand A side in 2004 and in the Emerging Players tournament in Australia in 2011.
Martin enjoyed an outstanding debut season for Northern Districts in 1999/2000 taking 37 wickets, which led to him being called into the squad for the Test against Australia,[2] and touring England with New Zealand A. He was named the Northern Districts cricketer of the year in 2003/04. He continued to play for Northern Districts until the end of the 2009/10 season, after which he moved toAuckland. He finally made his Test debut for New Zealand in 2013, playing all three Tests in thehome series against England.[3] He played two further Tests in tours to England and Bangladesh but was dropped after poor performances, and played his last matches for Auckland in the following 2013/14 season.[4]