wickets Marriott took in his only Test match remain the best bowling figures for any player who has only played a single Test. He is the only player to have taken two five wicket hauls in their only Test and his Test bowling average of 8.72 runs per wicket is the lowest of any Test cricketer to have taken 10 or more wickets. Marriott took a total of 711 wickets during his first-class career, 429 of them taken for Kent. He took 10 wickets in a match 10 times, eight for Kent, and five wickets in an innings 48 times. He was a less than capable fielder and batsman and scored fewer runs, 574, than he took wickets. As a coach at Dulwich College he coached a number of future first-class players, including future Wisden Cricketers of the Year Trevor Bailey and Hugh Bartlett. Personal and later life Marriott married Phyllis Taylor at Kensington in 1924 and taught at Dulwich College throughout his career. He retired from teaching in 1953, three years early due to ill health. As a teacher he was "well known" for a passion for literature, playing roles in school plays and he played the trombone in the school orchestra. After his retirement he gave readings from literature at schools and literary societies. During World War II Marriott was an anti-aircraft gunner in the Home Guard and played cricket in war-time matches, including at Lord's in 1944 when he was 47. He died in a nursing home at Dollis Hill in Middlesex in 1966 aged 71. See also One-Test wonder List of England cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut Notes References External links Scorecard of Charles Marriott's only Test match 1895 births 1966 deaths Cambridge University cricketers England Test cricketers English cricketers Kent cricketers Lancashire cricketers Free Foresters cricketers British Home Guard soldiers Lancashire Fusiliers officers British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of World War II People from Heaton Moor Cricketers who have taken five wickets on Test debut Gentlemen cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Schoolteachers from Greater Manchester S. B. Joel's XI cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945