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Troy Martin

Founder

Little Wonder Digital

https://www.littlewonderdigital.com.au

Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia

Troy Martin, a cricket tragic. Living on the NSW Central Coast, he has worked as a cook in a nursing home, as a ‘quality control manager’ at a local fruit juice factory. He has been a high school English and History, he found himself lecturing in education at the University of Newcastle, teaching future teachers. Now as owner of a social/digital media agency, Little Wonder Digital. In his first cricket season, in the under 11’s for the now defunct Toukley Kookaburras, he found himself not out 0 in the grand final, as the team tasted defeat for the first time that season. 30 years later and he still hasn’t played in a final series. He is the social media manager for Warnervale Cricket Club.

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Q: I had blocked out an over; the keeper quipped, ‘Come on boys, more dots than a dot painting’.

While I am not Indigenous, imagine if I was and that comment had been said? Just a bit of banter, right? Just brush it off, right?

In many ways, Australian Cricket is a mirror to Australian society; the first ever tour of England by an Indigenous Team saw the team worked like slaves, ignored on their return and white-washed out of the history until the 21st century. The tough Colonials taking it to the English, the brave and bold Bradman facing Bodyline, the brash sides of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The 1980’s saw a dark time and a questioning of identity, of a rapidly changing world that saw economic and societal changes that made the world smaller and yet somehow more foreign to the traditional, it was when cricket started to be considered a career and a commodity. The domination of the mid to late 1990’s and early 2000’s when our Prime Minister wanted us to be ‘comfortable and relaxed’, and most of us were, on and off the field.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1065/troy-martin/blog/1714/more-dots-than-a-dot-painting-how-cricket-can-help-reconciliation

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More Dots than a Dot Painting: How Cricket can help Reconciliation

I had blocked out an over; the keeper quipped, ‘Come on boys, more dots than a dot painting’. While I am not Indigenous, imagine if I was and that comment had been said? Just a bit of ba ...

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Q: Troy Martin - My Best Australian T20 XI not to play T20 cricket

If you could pick any player from Australi0a’s rich cricketing history to represent Australia in the up-and-coming men’s T20 World Cup, who would you pick?

The criteria? The player can have represented Australia in other formats, but not T20.

Is there an XI from Australia’s past that could match it with the world’s best male T20 players?

1. Victor Trumper
2. Mark Waugh

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1065/troy-martin/blog/1202/troy-martin-my-best-australian-t20-xi-not-to-play-t20-cricket

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Troy Martin - My Best Australian T20 XI not to play T20 cricket

If you could pick any player from Australi0a’s rich cricketing history to represent Australia in the up-and-coming men’s T20 World Cup, who would you pick?The criteria? The player can ha ...