Martyn Croy

Martyn Gilbert Croy (born 23 January 1974) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played for Otago between the 1994–95 season and 2001–02. A wicket-keeper, Croy toured England with the New Zealand national cricket team in 1999 and played for representative teams. Since retiring he has worked in sport administration.

Cricket career Croy was born at Hamilton in 1974. He played age-group cricket for Northern Districts during the 1993–94 season and toured Pakistan with the national under-19 team in early 1994, playing in all three under-19 Test matches and two of the three under-19 One Day Internationals on the tour. He moved to Otago the following season in search of a place in a representative team and made his debut playing for the team in a List A match against Canterbury at Centennial Park in Oamaru as the team's wicket-keeper. He scored 21 not out and held two catches on debut before going on to keep wicket in all but one of Otago's matches during the season. He made his first-class debut in December against Central Districts―scoring 61 runs and holding six catches as Otago won by an innings He played in four first-class and three List A matches for New Zealand during the tour, but did not break in to the full international team. He toured England again in 2000, this time with the New Zealand A team, playing in five first-class matches―including against the West Indian team which was touring England at the time—and three List A fixtures, as well as playing for the New Zealanders against The Netherlands in one of the team's warm-up matches in Amsterdam. When he retired Croy was third in wicket-keeping dismissals for Otago.

Post-retirement After working at the Otago Academy of Sport, Croy moved to work at High Performance Sport New Zealand, initially in Dunedin before moving to Christchurch in 2010. Working primarily with high performance support staff and administrators, including for Snow Sport NZ, Croy became an independent consultant in the industry in 2016, working with, amongst others, Paralympics New Zealand. He has coached wicket-keeping, both at age-group and senior level. He is married with three children.