This Indian cricketer suffered a street accident and was on life help, now runs laundry outlet in Gujarat

New Delhi:

There have been many cricketers who’ve bossed the home circuit however have both not performed for India or have had restricted rope of their palms for the nationwide group. Wasim Jaffer, Unmukt Chand, Rajinder Goel and Amol Muzumdar are to call a number of.

One amongst them is Jacob Martin, a former Indian cricketer, who proved his mettle within the home circuit however ran out of luck for India. From being an Indian cricketer to surviving a street accident, being arrested in a human trafficking case after which operating a laundry, life has been totally different to him than many different famed cricketers.

Born on May 11, 1972 in Baroda, Martin had set the home circuit on fireplace throughout his enjoying days. He made 9192 runs within the First-Class cricket at 46.65 with 23 centuries and 47 fifties. In addition, Martin additionally had made 2948 runs in List A cricket at 39.30 (3 tons, 20 half-tons) and 14 in two T20 video games that he performed.

The middle-order batter had an excellent timing and approach and he had unleashed his brilliance for Baroda within the home circuit. He made his FC debut within the 1991-92 Ranji Trophy. He performed for them for many of his profession and even captained them to the Ranji Trophy title in 2000-01 earlier than main them to the ultimate within the subsequent season. He made a swap to Railways for the 2002-03 season and returned to play for Baroda until 2009. He additionally performed for Assam within the home circuit. 

Martin’s breakout Ranji trophy season was in 1998-99 when he slammed 1037 runs for Baroda at a mean of 103.70 with 5 centuries. During this season, he had change into simply the sixth participant to hit over 1000 runs in a Ranji Trophy season.

In between in brilliance within the home cricket, he additionally performed 10 ODI matches for India. Martin made his worldwide debut throughout West Indies’ tout to Canada in 1999 and performed towards the Windies. Martin has scored 158 runs in eight ODI innings at 22.57 along with his highest rating being 39 towards Pakistan.

His rope ran out in 2001 when he final performed towards Kenya earlier than not being picked once more. Martin stored enjoying the home cricket till 2009, earlier than he retired following his final sport towards Maharashtra for Baroda within the Ranji Trophy Super League.

Martin was arrested in 2011 in Delhi in reference to a 2003 human trafficking case. He was named as head coach of Baroda cricket group for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy season. Notably, the cricketer had suffered a automobile accident in December 2018, and was positioned on life help. He is now retired and runs retailers of laundry and dry-cleaning model, UClean, in Gujarat.