Michael Bevan also known as Bevo was born in Australia on the 8th May, 1970. This left handed batsman was famous for tight run chase situations and was also called as the “finisher”. Before the start of his professional
career, Bevan started as a bowler but changed his mind when he once got a back injury at an early age. He then took batting seriously and started off as a batsman in the Australian under-19 cricket team.
Bevan made his first class debut for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Western-Australia-c865 and scored a hundred in his first innings. In 1994, Bevan got the chance to play international cricket. This was the year when Australian
legend, Allan Border retired and Bevan made his way in the international team. His test debut was against Pakistan in 1994 at Karachi. Bevan scored 80 in his first innings.
After the tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 he played two matches of the Ashes series but could not perform well and was dropped from the Test team. Although he could not do well as a batsman in Test cricket, he performed well as a bowler in his
limited Test cricket career. His bowling style was the left-arm china-man spin. He is known to be the only bowler of this type who took ten wickets in a Test match in 1996 against West Indies
Being dropped from the Ashes, Bevan got the tag of being a ‘One-Day player’. Some people were of the opinion that Bevan’s weakness in Test cricket was the short ball, but Bevan said that his problem was not the short ball it was
psychological. Bevan also mentioned once that their team had lots of great players, “I was simply required less” were his words.
Bevan’s best innings were against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in 1996 and New Zealand in 2002. In the match against West Indies, Bevan hit a winning four off the last ball and proved himself as “finisher” although in a tight situation. In the
other match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754, Bevan scored 100. In that match, the Australian team seemed to be on the losing end as they were supposed to reach the target of 240 but at the score of 80, six players of the Australian team were out. Scoring a 100 in that
situation made Bevan to play his best innings under pressure and he contributed a winning century to the team.
In the 2003 World Cup, Bevan participated but with injuries. The first game that he played was at the group stage against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Namibia-c2964 but could not do well as he was caught and bowled
on 17 only. He did well in the match against England in the final group game when the team was at the struggling stage of 48-4, he made 74 runs and was not out as the team won the match. Then in the Super Sixs stages he made 56 runs against New Zealand and
helped his team win the match. He was unfortunate in the semi-final match, as he got out on a golden duck and did not play in the final.
In 2007, where Bevan was chosen as the member of “Australia’s greatest ever ODI team”, he announced his retirement on 17th January 2007.
After retirement, Bevan is an accredited level 3/ high performance cricket coach. As an assistant and batting cricket coach with the Tasmanian cricket squad, he made them win their first One-Day in 27 years. Also as the Head Coach
of Chennai superstars in the Indian Cricket League, he made the team perform well in the first two competitions of the Twenty20 league.
Other than cricket, Michael Bevan has also stepped into the corporate arena as Michael Bevan Mortgages which is a franchise based Broking Company and also runs a human resource company specializing in helping businesses creating
high performing employees known as Michael Bevan Business Performance.
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