Martin Checksfield
English cricketer (1939-2002)
Martin Frederic James Checksfield (29 April 1939 - 8 March 2002) was an English former first-class cricketer.
Checksfield was born at Marylebone and educated at Bryanston School, before going up to Christ Church, Oxford. While studying at Oxford he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University in at Oxford in 1960. The following year he made a further appearance in first-class cricket, this time for Oxford University against Leicestershire at Oxford. He scored 59 runs across his two matches, with a high score of 42 for the Free Foresters.
Checksfield died on 8 March 2002.
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