Wayne Martin has enjoyed a long and successful career in the whites, one that will reach another significant milestone on Saturday.
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The 49-year-old will play his 300th match for beloved club Burrumbeet in the Ballarat Cricket Association clash with Ballan.
Martin will play alongside two of his sons in the one-day A-grade clash on home soil.
A talented all-rounder, Martin has amassed over 10,000 runs and taken more than 400 wickets in a career that has barely had a break during the past 30 years.
“I came to uni in Ballarat back in the late 1980s and played footy at Learmonth. I got tied up with couple of those blokes and ended up playing cricket at Burrumbeet,” Martin recalled.
From there, he’s grown to love the club that has given him so much joy.
The clear highlight is the one and only premiership in the mid-1990s.
“We were probably the second best side in it all year and the top side lost the semi-final to Linton, who finished fourth I think,” Martin said.
“We played them in the grand final and beat them.”
Other than the team and individual success, Martin has taken great pleasure from playing with all three of his sons over the years.
This Saturday, Nick and Charlie have been named to play in the side alongside their father.
Burrumbeet is currently on top of the one-day A-grade ladder after an unbeaten start to the 2018-19 campaign.
Martin has played just one game this season, making an unbeaten century against Napoleons-Sebastopol earlier this month.
In the BCA first grade competition on Saturday, Darley is set to unveil highly-touted recruit Danza Hyatt.
Hyatt played nine one-day internationals and five Twenty20s for the West Indies.
The hard-hitting batsman will bolster a Darley side that sits ninth on the ladder.
The Lions, which registered their first win of the 2018-19 campaign last weekend, will take on Golden Point at Darley Park.
Saturday’s round of matches will be played under the Twenty20 format.