Richmond champion Dustin Martin has entered rarefied air in Brownlow Medal history.

Martin’s 11 votes in the 2021 Brownlow count held last night, took him past the prestigious 200-vote milestone.

He now has 202 votes from 260 AFL games, which puts him in ninth place overall on the Brownlow Medal all-time votes’ tally.

Among current day players in the competition, only Patrick Dangerfield (230), Scott Pendlebury (213) and Joel Selwood (210) have polled more Brownlow votes than Martin.

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Although Dusty missed the last five games of the 2021 home-and-away season with a severe kidney injury (and six all-up), he again was the Tigers’ top vote-winner in the Brownlow.

The 2017 Brownlow Medallist started this season off superbly, polling three votes for being best afield in the opening two rounds, against Carlton, Round 1 and Hawthorn, Round 2, and was rewarded with another three-vote game against Greater Western Sydney in Round 9.