Michael Bevan Funny Story: Michael Bevan played the role of finisher during his cricket career. Before the arrival of MS Dhoni, he was considered the best finisher in the world. Australia might have lost a match if he was not out. In the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup, he took the Kangaroo team to the final, playing a fighting innings against South Africa. He was the pivot of the Australian team’s middle order. Apart from being a left-handed batsman, Bevan was also a chinaman bowler. Former Australia chinaman bowler Brad Hogg also played many matches with him. Hogg was once Bevan’s room partner on a tour of Sri Lanka. An interesting incident happened during that time. Seeing whom the bread hogs were scared.
Bevan was sleeping with his eyes open
In the year 1996, the Australian team went on a tour of Sri Lanka to play the series. This was Bread Hogg’s debut tour. For some reason Shane Warne could not go on this tour. Bread Hogg was included in the team as his replacement. During this, he came to know a new thing about the star cricketer of the team, Michael Bevan. Both were room partners on Sri Lanka tour. According to him, once I woke up, I saw Michael Bevan staring at me. I was shifting myself, I felt that Bevan wanted to kill me. After that the bread hog came to know that Bevan has a habit of sleeping with his eyes open. Overall, the bread hogs were quite scared that night.
Michael Bevan’s career
Michael Bevan represented Australia in Tests and ODIs. He scored 785 runs in 18 Tests for the Kangaroo team. He was successful in scoring 6 half-centuries in the biggest format of cricket. Apart from this, he played 232 ODIs for Australia. His bat went well in ODI cricket. He was the backbone of the Australian team in ODIs. Bevan scored 6912 runs in 196 innings of 232 ODIs. He has 6 centuries and 46 half-centuries to his name in ODIs. His highest score in ODIs was 108 not out. Michael Bevan was part of the Australian team that won the World Cup in 1999.
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