1. Callum James Ferguson was born on 21 November 1984 and is a former Australian cricketer and commentator who has represented Australia in all three forms of international cricket.
62 Facts About Callum Ferguson
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Callum Ferguson represented South Australia in the JLT One-Day Cup.
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Callum Ferguson has played few ODIs since, and he played a single Test match in 2016 against South Africa, scoring 4 runs across his two innings.
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Callum Ferguson has played for South Australia for his entire domestic career, which spanned over fourteen seasons.
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Callum Ferguson spent two seasons playing for Pune Warriors India in the Indian Premier League.
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Callum Ferguson conceded that being dropped sped up his retirement.
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Callum Ferguson attended Blackfriars Priory School in Prospect, South Australia before moving to Marryatville High School in Year 9, where he completed his schooling.
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Callum Ferguson has since become captain of West Torrens DCC and had the Ferguson-George Cricket Academy for promising young players in the West Torrens zone named after him and Southern Redbacks teammate and fellow Australian Cricket Representative Peter George.
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Callum Ferguson came in at number 9 and scored 3 runs.
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Callum Ferguson made his first-class debut for South Australia on 16 October 2004 against Victoria at South Australia's home ground, the Adelaide Oval, with scores of 2 and 46.
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Callum Ferguson scored his maiden first-class century in the second innings of the match with a score of 103.
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Callum Ferguson had a very strong debut season overall, top scoring for Redbacks with 733 runs at an average of 38.57 runs per wicket.
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Callum Ferguson scored 225 at an average of 28.12 in the one-day ING Cup.
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Callum Ferguson was less successful in one-day matches, only scoring 175 runs at an average of 21.87.
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Callum Ferguson scored his third first-class fifty in a row in Darren Lehmann's farewell match against Western Australia.
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Callum Ferguson then scored two 50s against Tasmania and New South Wales.
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Callum Ferguson scored totals of 81 and 115 in a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria, and five minutes after his second dismissal he learned that he would be brought into the national team's 13-man squad for the second and third ODIs against New Zealand due to the absence of captain Ricky Ponting and an injury to Shaun Marsh.
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Callum Ferguson made his One Day International debut, his first match representing Australia, against New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 6 February 2009.
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Callum Ferguson came in late in Australia's innings to score 6 not out off 6 balls.
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Callum Ferguson made his Twenty20 International debut against New Zealand, batting at number 3 and scoring 8 runs.
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Callum Ferguson scored his first ODI half-century against New Zealand at the Gabba with 55 not out while Australia faced top-order wobbles.
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Callum Ferguson scored a cool-headed 63 from 68 balls to give them a fighting chance, but again it was all in vain and Australia lost by 25 runs.
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Callum Ferguson is desperately unlucky not to be in the squad.
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Callum Ferguson remained in the ODI squad when he was included in the team for Australia's ODIs in England and Scotland at the end of the 2009 season.
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Callum Ferguson was one of the key players for Australia in the series win against England, scoring two half-centuries and twice being at the crease to seal run chases.
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Callum Ferguson was part of Australia's 2009 ICC Champions Trophy-winning squad in South Africa, which he described as the "hugest" event of his career so far.
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Callum Ferguson would have been prepared to bat in Australia's run chase if needed, though later tests revealed that he would require a knee reconstruction, taking out of competitive cricket for at least six months.
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Callum Ferguson came back from injury to be named in Australia's squad for their ODI series in India in October 2010, but persistent rain meant he was unable to play any matches and he was then left out of Australia's squad for the next ODI series against Sri Lanka until a back injury forced Shaun Marsh out of the team.
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Callum Ferguson was again added to the Australian ODI squad for the last two matches of the ODI series against England when Shaun Marsh had a hamstring injury, which led to his selection in Australia's 15-man squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
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Callum Ferguson did not get to play a match and Australia were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
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Callum Ferguson came into the side in the second ODI to replace the out-of-form Cameron White but was not required to bat as Australia only lost one wicket in their innings.
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Callum Ferguson played his final ODI in the third match of the series, scoring just 3 runs off 6 balls.
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Callum Ferguson had not done enough to retain his spot in the squad for their tour of Sri Lanka in August 2011.
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Callum Ferguson signed up for the 2011 Indian Premier League player auction, where he was bought by the Pune Warriors India for $300,000, though he missed the start of the tournament as he was still with the Australian side in Bangladesh at the time.
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Callum Ferguson played five matches for the tournament and scored 48 runs, though he did so at less than a run a ball.
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Callum Ferguson was kept on by Pune for the 2012 season, but he only managed to play 4 matches with the very low strike rate of 79.36 runs per 100 balls.
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Callum Ferguson hit a match-winning century against Western Australia on 23 October 2011, battling to take South Australia from 8 for 170 to their target of 234 along with tailender Nathan Lyon.
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Callum Ferguson remarkably top-scored for South Australia with 126 in spite of an innings loss to Western Australia in a Sheffield Shield loss, after which he scored an unbeaten 56 against the Warriors in a one-day win two days later.
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Callum Ferguson was part of South Australia's Ryobi Cup-winning team, breaking a 25-year drought for the state.
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Callum Ferguson was named as 12th man in the one-day team of the year.
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Callum Ferguson scored his only century for the season in a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria, reaching 110 runs.
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Callum Ferguson top-scored with 82 and forged a 136-run partnership with Alex Ross.
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Callum Ferguson again saved the Redbacks from disaster, though they were still unable to win, against Western Australia at the end of the tournament, scoring a run-a-ball 82 to top score again.
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Callum Ferguson started the Sheffield Shield with an unbeaten century against Queensland, finishing on exactly 100 not out when the Redbacks declared in the first innings on their way to an eight-wicket win.
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Callum Ferguson scored his second century in three matches against Victoria, scoring a total of 140 in the first innings, though he scored only 4 in the second innings while the Redbacks suffered an innings loss.
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Callum Ferguson top-scored for South Australia when they scored the lowest Sheffield Shield total in ten years.
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Callum Ferguson was the only player to reach double figures, scoring 11 out of their 45 runs.
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Callum Ferguson followed this up by scoring a match-winning unbeaten century against Tasmania, and in the final match he scored another century against Queensland, as part of both a 156-run partnership with Mark Cosgrove and a 99-run partnership with Tom Cooper.
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Callum Ferguson returned from his knee injury over the off-season and, in his first match back in competitive cricket, he scored 122 in the Premier League.
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Callum Ferguson followed this up with a century against Cricket Australia XI, his career-best at 154 runs off just 113 balls.
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Callum Ferguson played his 100th first-class match in the opening game of the Sheffield Shield against Western Australia.
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Callum Ferguson struck a fast-paced 101 runs off 127 balls to lead South Australia to a total of 505 and an overall first-innings lead of 234 in what became a 10-wicket win.
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Callum Ferguson became the 445th Test cricketer for Australia when he played against South Africa on 12 November 2016 at Bellerive Oval in Hobart, making his debut along with Redbacks teammate Joe Mennie, the 446th Test cricketer for Australia.
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Callum Ferguson went even worse in his second innings, only scoring one run before he was caught out.
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Callum Ferguson was dropped from the Test team immediately after his debut match, which turned out to be a controversial decision.
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Callum Ferguson's replacement was the younger Nic Maddinson, who had a less consistent and less successful first-class record than Ferguson, and former Australian Test cricketers Brett Lee and Michael Hussey both said that he had been unlucky to be dropped after having just one opportunity.
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Callum Ferguson scored 75 and 103 in an 8-wicket loss, having only averaged 8.1 runs per innings since his Test debut.
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Callum Ferguson scored 90 in the final match against Tasmania, taking the side through to the final, the first Shield final of Ferguson's career.
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Callum Ferguson won the toss and chose to bat first, going on to score 169 runs, the highest total in his one-day career, to help the team win by just 5 runs.
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Callum Ferguson finished the tournament as the sixth-highest run-scorer, and the highest for the Redbacks, with a total of 358 runs across 8 matches.
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Callum Ferguson scored an unbeaten 182 in a match against Victoria, the highest score of the season to that point.
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Callum Ferguson made his debut for Worcestershire in May 2018 in the Royal London Cup 50 over competition, scoring 192 off 143 balls against Leicestershire- on debut.