The Letter That Ended Damien Martyn — 8 December 2006, Mid-Ashes

"45 runs in 3 innings. Four paragraphs. One signature." On 8 December 2006, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland received a written letter signed Yours sincerely, Damien Martyn. By the time he finished reading it, Australia's #4 had walked out of Adelaide without telling captain Ricky Ponting, Western Australia coach Wayne Clark, or the dressing room he had served for fourteen years. He never played another international match. In this episode of The Cricket Archives, we perform a forensic autopsy on the only mid-Ashes letter of resignation in modern Australian cricket — and on the selection machinery that made it necessary. #DamienMartyn #AustralianCricket #Ashes2006 #CricketAustralia #BaggyGreen #TrevorHohns #CricketHistory #TheCricketArchives