Victor James "Vic" Marks (born 1955) is a former Somerset and England cricketer, who played in six Tests and thirty four One Day Internationals.The cricket correspondent Colin Bateman noted that "in typical self-deprecating style, Vic Marks entitled one of his books, Marks Out of XI. He was probably out of the England XI slightly too often. While he was never a fashionable cricketer, he was a determined and highly effective off-spinner-cum-batsman whose Test figures stand comparison with those often picked ahead of him, such as Geoff Miller and Eddie Hemmings". He writes for The Guardian newspaper and reports on Test series whilst summarising for the BBC's TMS. Wikipedia