Wing at Hastings with the rank of Lieutenant for the remainder of the war. He was demobilised in April 1919. Cricket career Having played some cricket during the war, including for a side organised by FS Jackson at Lord's in 1918, Marriott made his first-class cricket debut for the Gentlemen of England against Oxford University in May 1919. He went on to make his Lancashire debut later the same month. The match, against Essex at Leyton, is reported to be the first county cricket match Marriott had ever seen. He played 12 matches for Lancashire from 1919 to 1921. Marriott enrolled at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1919. He played for Cambridge University Cricket Club, making 17 first-class appearances for the side in his two years at Cambridge. He won blues in 1920 and 1921, meeting with "remarkable success", taking seven wickets in both of his University Matches. It was at Cambridge that Marriott was nicknamed "Father" on account of his relatively advanced age of 25. After Cambridge, Marriott went on to take up a post as a teacher of modern languages at Dulwich College in 1921. He took responsibility for cricket at the school between 1921 and 1926. The post allowed him to play for Kent County Cricket Club in the school holidays, although he initially declined Lord Harris' invitation to do so. He eventually accepted the opportunity and played for the Kent side between 1924 and 1937, making 101 first-class appearances for the county, taking 429 wickets. In his first season for Kent Marriott topped the county's bowling averages and was awarded his county cap. He took 10 wickets against Hampshire and 11 against Lancashire and had a "remarkable impact" on the side. He toured South Africa over the English winter of 1924/25 with SB Joel's XI, playing in eight of the 14 first-class matches during the tour and played regularly for Kent during August in each season until 1935, other than in 1930 when he played no first-class cricket. His last match for Kent came in 1937 against Sussex at Maidstone, and his final first-class match was the following year for Free Foresters against Oxford University. International cricket Marriott was selected in the squad for the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1921, but didn't make the final eleven. Marriott's only Test match was in the third Test against the touring West Indies at The Oval in 1933.