Ian Andrew Healy was born on 30 April 1964 and is an Australian former international cricketer who played for Queensland domestically.
19 Facts About Ian Healy
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Ian Healy was a very useful batsman and improved dramatically during the second half of his career.
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Ian Healy could be handy as a hitter late in the innings during ODIs: he averaged 21 while scoring at a rate of 83.8 runs per hundred balls.
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Ian Healy captained Australia in eight ODIs when the regular skipper Mark Taylor was injured.
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Rod Marsh inspired Ian Healy to take up wicket-keeping; he played basketball, soccer, squash and rugby league.
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Ian Healy represented the Queensland under-11 team and later attended a clinic conducted by the touring Queensland cricketers.
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However, Anderson remained the first choice as the state's wicketkeeper for the next eighteen months, during which time Ian Healy managed only six first-class appearances.
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Ian Healy's form had gradually improved, culminating in an unbeaten 102 at Old Trafford when he dominated a partnership with Steve Waugh.
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Ian Healy was well known for his energy and optimism behind the stumps, and could frequently be heard on effects microphones encouraging the rest of the team, perhaps most prominently praise of Shane Warne, expressed as 'bowling, Warnie'.
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However, when Border retired at the end of the 1994 tour of South Africa, Healy was not seen as viable successor as Australian captain for two reasons.
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Ian Healy maintained his Test place, beginning the season with scores of 68 at Brisbane and 85 at Perth against New Zealand.
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On 4 October 1998, Ian Healy broke Rod Marsh's world record of 355 dismissals when he caught Wasim Akram from the bowling of Colin Miller, during the first Test against Pakistan at Rawalpindi.
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Ian Healy jointly holds the record in Test cricket of being the only cricketers to have been run out in both innings of a Test on two occasions.
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Ian Healy then asked to play the first Test, scheduled for his home ground at Brisbane, as a farewell.
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Ian Healy was recognised as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1994.
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Ian Healy embarked on a career presenting sport on the top-rating Nine News Queensland; he initially presented on weeknights in 2007 and 2008, before moving to weekends from 2009 until 2016, after regular weeknight sports presenter Wally Lewis made a full recovery from epilepsy.
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Ian Healy was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Ian Healy has two brothers and a sister; Ken, Greg and Kim.
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Ian Healy is married to wife Helen, with whom he has two daughters, Emma and Laura, and a son, Tom.