Michael Bevan
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Full name | Michael Gwyl Bevan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Batsman | 8 May 1970|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 360) | 28 September 1994 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 2 January 1998 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 116) | 14 April 1994 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 29 February 2004 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1989/90 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 March 2008 |
Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970) is a former Australian
He was an Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1989.[1]
Bevan amassed 15,103 runs in List A cricket at an average of 57.86, which is the highest average by any player to have scored 10,000 runs in List A cricket.
Playing career
Domestic career
Michael Bevan's first senior club was Weston Creek Cricket Club in Canberra. He made his first-class debut in 1989-90 domestic season for New South Wales and scored a century in the first innings of the match.
Although Bevan played most of his domestic career for the
ODI career
He made his ODI debut on 14 April 1994 against Sri Lanka in the
One of his most famous "anchor" innings was in the New Year's Day One Day International at the Sydney Cricket Ground against the West Indies in 1996 during the Benson & Hedges World Series.[7] With the Australians at one stage 6/38 chasing 173, his unbeaten 150-minute 78 got the Australians over the line with a four on the last ball of the innings.[8][9] He was the second leading run scorer in the 1995/96 Benson & Hedges World Series only behind Mark Taylor with an aggregate of 389 runs in 10 innings at an impressive mind boggling average of 194.5, bolstered by eight not-outs out of the 10 innings striking at 83.65 throughout the tournament.[10]
He featured in his first World Cup tournament during the
He was selected to the Australian squad for the 50 over cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games where Australia became runners-up in the competition to South Africa.[13] He was a key member of the Australian side which lifted the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
On 8 April 2000, he played arguably the best knock of his career where he steered the mammoth epic run chase of 321 by scoring an unbeaten 185 off just 132 deliveries in an unofficial ODI held in Dhaka which almost guaranteed Rest of the World XI for an unlikely victory against the Asia XI.
In January 2002, he scored a crucial unbeaten 95 ball 102 in a match against New Zealand in a modest run chase of 246 at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground.[19] He arrived to the crease as he once again had to do the bulk of scoring runs after all familiar Aussie top-order collapse as Australia were reeling at 82/6 at one point to then reduced to 143/7.[20] His knock guaranteed Australia a thrilling two wicket win over New Zealand with three balls to spare.[21]
Bevan entered the
Test career
Despite his ODI success, Bevan's Test career was not nearly as successful. Thought to be susceptible to short-pitched deliveries,[citation needed] he had limited success as a Test batsman, with an average of only 29. He ended up his topsy-turvy test career without a career century to his name. However he scored heavily in domestic first-class cricket for New South Wales, averaging almost 60 with the bat. He performed well during his limited time as a bowler in Test matches, with his bowling style of left-arm unorthodox spin, which included taking ten wickets in a test match against the West Indies at the Adelaide Oval.
The retirement of Allan Border opened doors for his arrival to international cricket. He made his test debut against Pakistan on 28 September 1994 as the 360th test cap for Australia. He had a promising start to his test career scoring 82 batting at no 5 on his debut in Australia's first innings and just fell short of 18 runs which would have brought him in an elite list of test centurions on debut.[22] He continued his momentum in his debut test series which was against Pakistan by making two more half-centuries. During the test series against the West Indies in 1997-98, he showed his all-round prowess both with the bat and ball scoring two unbeaten 80s when batting down the order and often ran out of partners during the course of those knocks while also picking up 15 wickets.
He admitted that the reason why his test career never really took off is mainly due to the psychological reasons and not the technical reasons.[23]
Retirement
On 17 January 2007, due to injuries Bevan announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. "It got to the stage where injuries and pain were holding back my motivation, and it got to the stage where I was finding it hard to get up for matches and that was probably a pretty clear indication that it was time to move on," Bevan said.[24]
Post-playing career
Coaching
Apart from coaching the
Television
In 2020, Bevan was revealed to be the 'Hammerhead' in the
Professional career
Bevan later started a mortgage broking franchise and features on the Australian speaking circuit. [27][28]
References
- ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002.
- ^ "Records | List A matches | Batting records | Highest career batting average | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ Daily Times (28 February 2007). "Australia names greatest ODI team". Retrieved 1 March 2007.
- ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs Australia 2nd Match 1993/94 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "A tribute to the 'pyjama picassos'". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ From the Vault: Bevan becomes a hero, retrieved 1 May 2022
- ^ Cricket Archive
- ^ Australia v West Indies – WSC 95/96 Match 5 – Bevan's Match : Online Video | Veoh Video Network
- ^ "Benson & Hedges World Series, 1995/96 Averages". static.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "RetroReport - Shane Warne conjures win out of nowhere as Australia sneak into final". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Australia vs Sri Lanka Final 1995/96 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Australia Squad". Cricinfo.
- ^ Michael Bevan 185* vs ASIA XI - 2000 Dhaka, retrieved 1 May 2022
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Asia XI vs ROW XI 1999/00 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Asia vs ROWXI - 1999/00 at Dhaka". CricInfo. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Bevan's brilliance not enough in Bangladesh". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Michael Bevan 185*: What Could Have Been ODI Cricket's Greatest Innings Ever". Wisden. 28 May 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ Michael Bevan does it again, retrieved 1 May 2022
- ^ "Get a load of Bevan, Klusener and Dhoni". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of New Zealand vs Australia 10th Match 2001/02 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Australia vs Pakistan 1st Test 1994/95 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "'My problems at Test level were psychological, not technical'". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Bevan pulls stumps". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 January 2007.
- ^ "Bevan named Kings XI Punjab coach". ESPNCricInfo. 5 January 2011.
- 11 Play. Network Ten. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ https://www.smh.com.au/business/bevan-pitches-for-mortgage-business-20070508-gdq30q.html
- ^ https://www.celebrityspeakers.com.au/speakers/michael-bevan/