GEIS Alumni

Martin attended GEIS from 1973-1974 where we demonstrated the school values of Excellence, Resilience, Integrity and Respect to achieve his goals. This was reinforced by his supportive family at home.  

The story goes when Martin and Jeff were at GEIS, their teacher was continually calling them in from breaks and lunchtime from the school cricket nets shouting " Martin and Jeff get back into class for your reading and maths as you're not going to get anywhere with cricket ".

At GEIS we have the Crowe Leadership award in memory of former students  Martin and Jeff Crowe. 

As the 20th century drew to an end, Martin Crowe became the standard by which New Zealand batsmanship would be measured. A batsman of elegance, poise and range, Crowe broke through into Test cricket as a 19-year-old, and in a short span of time was heralded as the best young batsman in the world. By the end of his Test career, he was New Zealand's highest run-getter and century-maker, scorer or 10,000 international runs, its captain in the 1992 World Cup who engineered an exhilarating home run all the way to the semi-finals, and a totemic figure in his team's feisty Test performances through the Eighties.

Martin produced performances of determination and dominance, part of 16 historic Test victories in which he averaged 55.5, ten runs above his career average. His highest Test score of 299 against Sri Lanka remained New Zealand's highest individual innings for more than two decades before Brendon McCullum's 302 versus India, in 2014.

After retirement, he worked in the media, heading Sky's television coverage of cricket in New Zealand for a period of time, invented a new format for the sport called Cricket Max, and worked with Royal Challengers Bangalore in the early years of the IPL. A thoughtful writer and commentator on the game, Crowe remained a mentor and a guide for a younger generation of New Zealand cricketers. Crowe was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2012 and although he was in remission for a time, he suffered a relapse in 2014, and died in 2016 at the age of 53.

Rest Easy Martin !