Charles Marriott

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Charlie Marriott England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Legbreak googly
	Tests	First-class
Matches	1	159
Runs scored	0	574
Batting average	0.00	4.41
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	0	21
Balls bowled	247	37,223
Wickets	11	711
Bowling average	8.72	20.11
5 wickets in innings	2	48
10 wickets in match	1	10
Best bowling	6/59	8/98
Catches/stumpings	1/0	47/0
Test debut: 12 August 1933 Last Test: 15 August 1933 Source: [1]

Charles ("Father") Stowell Marriott (born 14 September 1895 in Heaton Moor, Lancashire, England; died 13 October 1966 in Dollis Hill, Middlesex, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. His birth was registered as "Charlie Stowell Marriott".

Marriott was one of the best legbreak and googly bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Lancashire, he went to school at St Columba's in Ireland, coming back to Lancashire to play in his first first-class match in 1919. He then went on to Cambridge, winning Blues in 1920 and 1921. After Cambridge, he went on to become master in charge of cricket at Dulwich College, a post that allowed him to play for Kent County Cricket Club in the school holidays from 1924 to 1937. He continued to be successful, and this led to his call-up for the England Test team for the Oval Test against the West Indies in 1933. He took 5 for 37 in the first innings, and 6 for 59 in the second as the Windies lost by an innings and 17 runs, but he played no more Test cricket after that.

Marriott toured abroad twice, first with the Honourable Lionel Tennyson's team that toured South Africa in 1924-25, and second with Douglas Jardine's official MCC team to India in 1933-34. There were three Test matches on this latter tour but he did not play in them. He did enjoy some successes though, and took a hat-trick against Madras (now Chennai).