One day master callz it a day

[Legend]

end of an era of the classic player.. Michael Bevan... hats off...

[Rajiv]

Re: One day master callz it a day Damn good player But they got Hussey now

[gs]

Re: One day master callz it a day Can the BCCI throw some money and import him to India?

[King]

Re: One day master callz it a day Excellent player, he has won so many games for Australia when in dire situations he is a legend. If he were to be playing for any other country he would have retired now as an international cricketer not a domestic one.

[Mr. Wicket]

Re: One day master callz it a day Shame to see him go as such an underachiever. One of the world's best ODI bats without any doubt, and probably the definitive middle order batsman of the 90s - although with his talent, he really should have done so much better in tests. 18 tests, and a very mediocre record isn't what we'd have expected given his class, range of strokes and nerve. Copying and pasting my comment on the test career that never was from here :

given the sort of talent he showed at first class level and in ODIs with that ice-cool temperament, range of shots and the other fringe addons like his sharp fielding, hard running and his very handy chinamen, I felt it was a very good theory-based investment that really should have paid off. The selectors can't be blamed for backing him so many times, because he offered just so much. In ODIs he was always the man for a crisis in a period when the side was far weaker than it is now. These days there are several go-to men for runs in a chase or crisis situation; Hussey, Ponting, Clarke, Symonds and until quite recently, Martyn. In the mid 90s, the batting didn't have such an embarrassment of riches, and whenever there were wickets or a sharply rising run rate with tailenders around the corner, it was always Bevan who held things together with a nerve and skill that had just about every opposition fan cursing him. Those performances and the runs he made in domestic cricket meant that success at test level should have been a given. It wasn't, so he got more and more chances until the door finally slammed shut. A real shame, because he'll be remembered largely as a 'what may have been' or an Austalian Hick/Ramps when tests are considered, rather than the middle order bulwark he should have become.

[talksport]

Re: One day master callz it a day Best of Luck and Thank You Mr.Bevan

[PaiN_KiLLeR]

Re: One day master callz it a day one of the greatest ever finishers of the ODI game,or perhaps THE greatest finisher this is what gilchrist had to say about hussey today - "He bases his game around Michael Bevan. He's perfected that sort of deft touch role, but he's also got the power game, so he can go in there and absorb pressure but he can also go in there with 10 overs left and start to clear the boundary," he added.

[Parth]

Re: One day master callz it a day

Can the BCCI throw some money and import him to India?[/quote We wish