Top 10 players of all time from Canterbury

#9 Chris Martin

Martin earned the respect of his peers with his dedication and commitment to the sport

One of New Zealand's greatest seam bowlers, Chris Martin earned a dubious distinction as the world's worst batsman. His batting average of 2.36 is the lowest among all players in Test cricket.

In fact, having scored just 123 and 8 runs in his entire Test and ODI career respectively, Martin, with 233 Test wickets and 18 ODI wickets, has more wickets than runs to his name.

Even in T20I cricket, Martin scored just 5 runs while picking up 7 wickets.

With the ball, Martin had a fruitful career for New Zealand, especially in the longer format of the game. Martin is one of four New Zealand Test cricketers to have taken 200 wickets and in 2011, he was awarded the inaugural Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for his performances.

Martin's finest performance for New Zealand came in the Auckland Test in 2004 against South Africa when he led his side to victory with an 11-wicket haul.

Martin made his first-class debut for Canterbury in 1997 before moving to Auckland in 2005. He retired from all forms of cricket in 2013 with 588 wickets from 189 first-class matches and not surprisingly, with a fewer number of runs (473) than wickets taken.