He was aged 37 when he was called in to the England side as a replacement for the injured Hedley Verity. He took 11 wickets during the match, 5/37 in the West Indies first innings, and 6/59 in the second, making him the fourth cricketer to take two five wicket hauls on Test debut. Wisden reported that with "clever fighting of the ball, perfect length and spin" he produced "one of the best performance accomplished by a bowler when playing for England for the first time" and Marriott remains the bowler with the lowest bowling average to have taken more than 10 wickets in Test matches. He "bewildered" the West Indian batsmen as he "disguised his spin very well and never made the ball break too much". The following winter Marriott toured India with an official England side led by Douglas Jardine. He did not play in any of the three Test matches on the tour and Wisden reported that he "was seldom as good as in England", although he took a hat-trick against Madras, the only time he completed the hat-trick during his career. He played nine times for MCC during the tour, taking 32 wickets, and made a further appearance for the club against the touring Australians in May 1934. Playing style and legacy Marriott was one of the best leg break bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s. He bowled with a high bowling action, swinging his arm behind his back before he delivered the ball in a style which Wisden compared to Kent's great spin bowler Colin Blythe. He bowled an "immaculate length" at slow or medium pace and was "highly disciplined" in his approach to bowling, having developed his skills through what The Times called "endless practice". He used "cunning flighting" and "the ability to turn the ball sharply" to be an effective bowler "even on good pitches" and could be "unplayable" on helpful pitches. He bowled a "fierce" top-spinner and although he was able to bowl an effective googly, he used it relatively rarely, having injured himself at school whilst bowling the delivery. If he did bowl the delivery it was generally during the first few overs of a spell to act as a deterrent to batsmen. He had begun to write a book, The Complete Leg-Break Bowler, when he died which was published after being completed by Ian Peebles and Richie Benaud. The 11