Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan is currently the coach of Chennai Superstars team in the ICL. He has also represented Yorkshire, Tasmania, Sussex, South Australia, New South Wales, Leicestershire, Kent and Australia.

Bevan was consistently regarded as the best limited overs batsman in the world. For over a decade, he was a mandatory part of the one day roster. He specialized in playing in crisis situations that ended in last over or last ball heroics. When he retired from ODI cricket, he had 2 World Cup wins against his name. He played two extremely memorable innings – in 1996 at Sydney against West Indies and in 2002 at Melbourne against New Zeland. In both these matches, he exhibited nerveless batting which led to nail biting victories. The highlights of his game were running hard, finding the gaps and gauging the apt moment and place to strike a boundary. He was an efficient fielder and his left arm spin added to his credentials and permitted him to take part in Test matches as a batting allrounder.

Career Highlights

In the 232 ODIs that Michael Bevan has played, he has scored 6912 runs at a batting strike rate of 74.16 and batting average of 53.58. His highest score was 108 not out. He has hit 21 sixers, 450 boundaries, 46 half centuries and 6 hundreds. As a fielder, he has taken 69 catches. He has also bowled 1966 balls in which he has conceded 1655 runs and has taken 36 wickets. His bowling average was 45.97, economy rate was 5.05 and bowling strike rate was 54.6.