Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan
Personal information
Full name
Michael Gwyl Bevan
Born (1970-05-08) 8 May 1970 (age 54)
Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm wrist spin
RoleBatsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 360)28 September 1994 v Pakistan
Last Test2 January 1998 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 116)14 April 1994 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI29 February 2004 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.12
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1989/90South Australia
1990/91–2003/04New South Wales
1995–1996Yorkshire
1998–2000Sussex
2002Leicestershire
2004Kent
2004/05–2005/06Tasmania
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 18 232 237 427
Runs scored 785 6,912 19,147 15,103
Batting average 29.07 53.58 57.32 57.86
100s/50s 0/6 6/46 68/81 13/116
Top score 91 108* 216 157*
Balls bowled 1,285 1,966 8,769 3,546
Wickets 29 36 119 93
Bowling average 24.24 45.97 44.89 33.27
5 wickets in innings 1 0 1 1
10 wickets in match 1 0 1 0
Best bowling 6/82 3/36 6/82 5/29
Catches/stumpings 8/– 69/– 122/– 128/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  Australia
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 1999 England-Wales
-Ireland-Scotland-Netherlands
Winner 2003 South Africa-Zimbabwe-Kenya
Runner-up 1996 India-Pakistan-Sri Lanka
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1998 Kuala Lumpur
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 March 2008

Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm wrist spin bowler. For several years, he was considered the world's finest One Day International (ODI) batsman, and topped the International Cricket Council's batting rankings in the format on numerous occasions. He was the first Canberra-born player to represent Australia at international level. He played 232 ODIs for Australia, and was a part of the Australian squads which won the 1999 and 2003 Cricket World Cups. He represented Australia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, where cricket was included in the Games for the first time.

Bevan was an Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1989.[1] He scored a total of 15,103 runs in List A cricket at an average of 57.86 runs per innings. This is the highest batting average for any player who has batted in 50 or more innings.[2] In 2007 he was named in Australia's greatest ODI team,[3] while in 2025, he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. The Michael Bevan Medal, for the player of the match in the Australian Domestic One-Day Cricket Final, is named after him.[4]

  1. ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002.
  2. ^ "Records | List A matches | Batting records | Highest career batting average | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. ^ Daily Times (28 February 2007). "Australia names greatest ODI team". Retrieved 1 March 2007.
  4. ^ Wu, Andrew (3 February 2025). "The 'finisher': Michael Bevan and the rule tweak that got him into Australian cricket's hall of fame". The Age. Retrieved 3 February 2025.

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