By Michael Bevan, Geoff Armstrong
Michael Bevan is one in all Australia's most fun and skilful batsmen, and a carrying hero to tens of millions. His uncanny knack of having the ability to paintings the ball into even the narrowest of gaps within the box; to work out many innings via to their end with out wasting his wicket; and to acquire runs with at the least fuss, has visible Bevan dubbed the world's most sensible limited-overs batsman. In a profession which has taken him to almost each nook of the cricketing international, Bevan has been an essential member of the Australian one-day crew and has been a key issue at the back of innumerable overseas wins. He was once part of the country's successful 1999 international Cup facet, and in January 2002, pulled Australia again from an "impossible position" to win opposed to New Zealand within the Tri international locations one-day sequence with a masterful, calculated innings of 102 runs. This compilation deals a photograph of greater than forty of Michael's favorite cricket fits and thoughts, but in addition covers very own thoughts and options in regards to the video game, his workforce buddies (including Adam Gilchrist and the Waugh brothers) and diverse revered competitors (including Sachin Tendulkar and Chris Cairns), and the highlights and lowpoints of a colorful profession. The e-book is released to coincide with the 2002 global Cup One-Day Cricket sequence.
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And playing for Australia A in the World Series (this was the season in which the Australian Cricket Board included an Australia A combination in the World Series, to add interest to a competition that also featured England and Zimbabwe as well as the real Australian team), I found that I was able to do just that. More relaxed, I started making runs, including a hundred in a one-dayer against a similar English bowling attack to the one that had embarrassed me in the Tests. What I didn’t acknowledge at that time—and for quite a while afterwards—was that it was the pressure I put on myself during the Test matches that had stopped me playing naturally, and thus had brought me undone.
And, in essence, I discovered that nearly anything was possible; later I’d learn that plenty can go wrong as well. The last of my five hundreds came against Tasmania in Hobart, the end of a run that went 106 not out (v WA in Sydney), 20 and 104 (v SA in Adelaide), 153 not out (v Victoria in Sydney), 121 (v Queensland in Sydney) and 136 and 3 (v Tassie). The century at Bellerive against Tasmania was actually my most circumspect, including only eight fours and a six, but it was also in a sense my most critical, as we went into that game level, at the top of the Shield ladder, with Victoria, so a win and preferably an outright win was critical.
Of my many knocks in county cricket, one of my most pleasurable came on 8 May 2002, my 32nd birthday, for Leicestershire against Warwickshire at my new home ground, Grace Road. I had been struggling to that point of the season, and felt out of nick, which I put down to the fact that I was batting on wickets I wasn’t used to. On this day, the track was a slow seamer and after two hours I was no more than 20. If anyone at this point had told me county cricket was easy, I’d have given them a real rev up.