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Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian Cricketer. He is a left-handed specialist batsman. Michael Hussey had a first opening to International cricket  at the age of 28 years. When he was 28, he was debuted to ODI and at the age of 30 he to test. Prior to his entry to the Australian team, his domestic career was extremely good. At the time of his entry to international cricket, he had aggregated over 15,000 first class runs.

Hussey’s late entry to Australian team has not affected his cricket career. His entry to Australian team was with a bang and ranked as a top ODI batsman in the world in 2006 and continued to be at the top through out. .

On 18th April 2006, he completed 1000 test runs in just 166 days. It is fastest test score  record. He also reached the top 10 of the LG ICC cricket ratings.  He maintained exceptionally high average of 105.25 in the 2006-07 Ashes series,

He plays first-class cricket as vice-captain of the Western Warriors in Australia and plays for three counties in England.

Hussey’s international career has been extremely successful, with his career batting average in Tests being around 60 and between 2006 and 2008 hovering between 75 and 85.  In ODIs his average was just under 60. His Test average is the highest among contemporary batsmen. He currently tops the list of best averages ever in ODI cricket..

Hussey’s Playing Style:

Hussey is a left handed batsman and right arm medium fast bowler. Hussey’s model ideal is Allan Border. He inspired him to such an extent that even he has imitated his batting style. He converted himself to a left handed batsman from right hand.

Hussey makes Australian tails to wag:

As a general tendency of human being, if any one demoted to a disadvantage position either he under or does not perform to express his discontentment. In case of Hussey, it is other way around.

Hussey was inducted to test match in absence of  Justin Langer and was opening the inning. On return of Justin Langer, Hussey was moved down the order to number 5. Even at this down the order, Hussey has proved invaluable to the Australian team with his marvelous performance.  At that position he helped the tail ender to build enormous partnerships. His 107-run, 10th wicket partnership with Glenn McGrath against South Africa’s 2005 – 20006 tour and 320-run partnership against Bangladesh in their 2006,  test  along with night-watch-man Jason Gillespie. In this match hussey made his career best score of 182 runs. These are two examples to quote.

Personal   Profile

Michael Hussey was born on 27th May 1975 at Morley, Western Australia. His full name is Michael Edward Killeen Hussey. Hussey, 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) tall, is also known by his nicknames of ‘Huss’, ‘The Huss’, and ‘Mr Cricket’. His nickname as Mr. Cricket is due to his encyclopedic knowledge of cricket.

Hussey is married to Amy and has three children Jasmin, William and Molly. His younger brother, David Hussey, is also a professional cricketer who plays for Victoria, Nottinghamshire, Kolkata Knight Riders and Australia.

Hussey likes light hearted gimmicks. During Twenty20 International against South Africa in 2006, .back of his shirt showed his nickname ‘Mr. Cricket’ and during the 2007 20/20 match against England, Hussey was seen with the nickname ‘Huss’ on back of his shirt.

He plays for the following major teams:

*    Australia

*    Western Australia

*    Northampton shire

*    Gloucestershire

*    Durham

*    Chennai Super Kings (IPL

His Cricket Career.

His Domestic Career:

Hussey initially played for his native Western Australian Warriors. He was representing Western Australian Warriors for Sheffield Shield. While playing for Sheffield Shield his career cumulative total was 6471 runs. He ranks eighth in the list of Western Australian run-makers in the Sheffield Shield

In 2001 he opted to play for Northamptonshire club. He created Northamptonshire club highest score record by scoring 329 not out in July 2001 and unbeaten 331 in August 2003.

He played 215 first class matches scoring 18,538 at an average of 53.35. He scored 49 centuries and 82 half centuries. His highest score in the first class matches is 331 not out.

He played 287 List ‘A’ scoring 9,065 at an average of 44.43. He scored 11 centuries and 66 half centuries. His highest score in the in the List ‘A’ is 123.

His One Day International Career.

Hussey debuted for the Australian One-day team against India on February 1st 2004. It was at his home WACA ground in Perth. In this match Hussey made 17* helping Australia to win the match by 5 wickets.

On 6 February 2006, Hussey was nominated as the Australian One-Day Player of the Year at the annual Allan Border Medal presentation. He left behind Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Brett Lee who were also in the competition. Hussey had also come second overall in the Allan Border medal his first year in international cricket. He is also nomination for:

-    ICC’s ODI Player of the Year at the annual ICC Awards in Mumbai. On 3 November 2006.

-    World ODI XI in 2006 and as 12th man in 2007.

In the 2007 Commonwealth Bank Triangular Series, Australia was in a losing position against England, and New Zealand. In both the matches Hussey had chased opponents score and he guided the Australians to victory when all recognized batsman were back in the pavilion.

Hussey gave respectability to Australian score of 159 against India in the 4th ODI  of the Commenwealth Bank Series played at the MCG on February 10, 2008. Australia’s Top and Middle Order batsman could not with stand the Indian bowling. Five wickets were down for mere 72 runs. But Hussey stood like a rock and made 53 run, in partnership with Brett Lee for the 7th wicket. Hussey continued to bat even after the fall of Bret Lee wicket. He scored 65 runs in 88 balls.

The latest achievement for Hussey in ODI was in the 2008 Bangladesh ODI series. His top score of 85 earned him Man of the match award second rank in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings.

He played 95 ODIs scoring 2491 at an average of 55.35. He scored 2 centuries and 16 half centuries. His highest score in the ODI is 109 not out.

His Tests Career:

Hussey’s debut test match was a flop. His test debut was at the Gabba in Brisbane on the 3rd November 2005 against West Indies. In the first innings he made only 1 run and on the second innings his score was 29. But his second test match has earned him a man of the match award for his impressive score of 137 and 31 not out. H continued his performance in the third test also by scoring 133* and 30*. In both the innings he was not out and recording his over all Test average to 120.

He played total 34 tests scoring 2909 runs at average of 59.36. He scored 9 centuries and 13 half centuries. His top score in test is 182.

2007 ICC World Twenty20 International

He was part of Australia’s 2007 ICC World Twenty20 squad and Australia had successfully reached to semi-final stage. He played in every one of Australia’s matches, scoring 65 runs with a best of 37 before suffering a hamstring injury.

Chennai Super Kings.

Michael Hussey has chosen to play for his IPL team Chennai Super Kings instead of his Australian state side Western Warriors for Champions Twenty20 League. He is the second batsman to score a Twenty20 century in the league. Earlier to him New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum had scored ton.

Michael Hussey was chosen by Chennai Super Kings a franchise team of IPL at the cost of US$625,000.

Hussey was a big flop as a captain:

Hussey was nominated as a captain on 18th September 2006. He was to lead Australian team for the first time in the DLF Cup second round match against West Indies at Kuala Lumpur. In spite of Hussey and Brad Haddin’s sixth-wicket partnership of 165 which is a world record for sixth-wicket in all ODIs, Australia lost by three wickets.

Again  as a rotation policy of Australia,  selectors have rested their regular captain Ricky Ponting and Vice-captain Adam Gilchrist and appointed Hussey as a captain for Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. The first match under Chappell-Hadlee Trophy was against New Zealand. Australia lost the match by ten wickets. It was for the first time Australia had lost a match by the margin of ten wickets in the One-Day International history.

After losing to New Zealand, Hussey had further embrassment as a captain. Under Hussey’s captaincy Australia lost the top place in the ODI Rankings to South Africa for the first time from the date of its introduced in 2002. Again Hussey lost the final match against New Zealand.

That was the last. Straw, Hussey lost his captaincy after continuously losing four matches. However in all these matches, Hussey batting performance was excellent.