Michael Edward Killeen Hussey was born on 27 May 1975 and is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former international cricketer, who played all forms of the game.
56 Facts About Michael Hussey
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Michael Hussey played first-class cricket as vice-captain of the Western Warriors in Australia and played for three counties in England, as well as the Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings.
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Michael Hussey announced his retirement from international cricket on 29 December 2012.
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Michael Hussey initially played for his native Western Australian Warriors, and his career total of 6471 runs ranks eighth in the list of that state's run-makers in the Sheffield Shield.
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Michael Hussey then moved to England, where in July 2001 he scored an unbeaten 329 at Wantage Road in his side's 633 for six declared on the way to a 10-wicket victory.
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When Michael Hussey was playing for Australia A, the Australian reserve team, Allan Border once jokingly suggested he get match practice by staying in the nets for a full six hours; surprisingly, Michael Hussey went on to do just that.
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Michael Hussey played for the Indian Premier League teams Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.
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Michael Hussey became the second batsman to score a century in the competition, after New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, making a score of 116 not out for Chennai against Kings XI Punjab in 2008.
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Michael Hussey played for Mumbai in 2014 but returned to Chennai the following season.
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Michael Hussey was a very occasional medium pace bowler, bowling only 98 overs in his Test career, 23 of them in 2008.
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Michael Hussey was brought into the attack usually to give the pace bowlers a rest, although he was once brought on in India to stop Ricky Ponting getting a one-match ban for a slow over rate.
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Michael Hussey debuted for the Australian One-day team against India on 1 February 2004 at his home WACA ground in Perth.
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However, Symonds was ruled ineligible after an alcohol-related indiscretion, and after Lee and Gilchrist were eliminated on countback, Michael Hussey was named the outright winner.
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Michael Hussey had come second overall in the Allan Border medal his first year in international cricket.
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On 3 November 2006, Michael Hussey became the ICC's ODI Player of the Year at the annual ICC Awards in Mumbai.
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Michael Hussey was named in its World ODI XI in 2006 and as 12th man in 2007.
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On 18 September 2006, owing to Australia's rotation policy, and in Ricky Ponting's absence, Michael Hussey captained Australia for the first time in the DLF Cup second round match against West Indies at Kuala Lumpur.
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The first match against New Zealand saw a 10-wicket loss, the first time Australia had lost by this margin in their One Day International history, although Michael Hussey top scored with 42 off 96 balls.
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Michael Hussey top-scored for Australia with an aggressive 105 off 84 before another loss in the final match left him with a captaincy record of four losses from four matches.
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In early 2007, Michael Hussey had a major slump in form with an average of only eight in over 10 innings, which scarcely improved in the World Cup where he gained an average of 17.4 with 87 runs.
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Michael Hussey made a 53-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Brett Lee until Lee fell to Pathan.
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Michael Hussey batted through the rest of the innings, making an unbeaten 65 off 88 being the only Australian to really contribute to the poor total of 159.
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On 19 February 2012, Michael Hussey became the 13th batsman to score 5000 runs for Australia in ODI cricket, when he scored 59 runs against India at the Gabba.
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Michael Hussey made his Test debut at the Gabba in Brisbane on 3 November 2005, as a replacement for fellow Western Australian batsman Justin Langer in the Australia vs West Indies series.
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Michael Hussey made 133 not out in the first innings and 30 not out in the second, bringing his Test average to 120.
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Michael Hussey continued his remarkable batting with tail-enders against Bangladesh in their Spring 2006 2-Test series when he and Jason Gillespie put together a 320-run partnership, with Michael Hussey making a then career-best 182.
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On 18 April 2006 Michael Hussey set a record as the fastest player in terms of time to reach 1,000 Test runs.
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Michael Hussey was the fastest player to reach the top 10 of the LG ICC cricket ratings.
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Michael Hussey scored the winning runs and made 61 not out from 66 balls.
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Michael Hussey was part of a record-breaking fourth-wicket partnership with Clarke.
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On 6 January 2008, at the SCG, Michael Hussey scored his eighth Test century against India.
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Michael Hussey ended up not out on 145, before Ponting declared.
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Michael Hussey claimed his first Test wicket against South Africa on the third day of the 2008 Boxing Day Test at the MCG, when Paul Harris skied a ball over Mitchell Johnson's head and the latter ran back and took a running catch as the ball fell down past his shoulder.
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Michael Hussey played in all five of Ashes Test matches in England in 2009, scoring 276 runs in 8 innings.
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Michael Hussey scored two half centuries at Lord's in the Second Test, which England won, and in the Third Test at Edgbaston, which ended in a draw.
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Australia were playing Pakistan and were losing badly when Michael Hussey proved yet again that he was brilliant with the tail end, scoring an unbeaten 134.
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Michael Hussey was involved in a 344 run partnership with Michael Clarke, who managed to score an unbeaten 329*.
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Michael Hussey was praised for his efforts and he cemented himself in the team after being under some serious pressure from critics and selectors.
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Michael Hussey played his final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the last of Australia's three match series against Sri Lanka.
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Michael Hussey was part of Australia's 2007 ICC World Twenty20 squad which was knocked out in the semi-finals.
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Michael Hussey played in all of Australia's matches, scoring 65 runs with a best of 37 before injuring a hamstring, which prevented his participation in Australia's tour of India that followed.
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Michael Hussey announced his retirement from international cricket after the 2012 Boxing Day Test at Melbourne.
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Michael Hussey planned to play out the rest of the Australian summer in limited overs cricket but was surprisingly dropped with Australian selectors who were planning for the 2015 World Cup and gave Phillip Hughes and Usman Khawaja an opportunity at ODI level.
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Michael Hussey explained that his motivation for his retirement was to spend more time with his family.
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Michael Hussey delayed his announcement until before the Sydney Test, fearing that he would be dropped before the Australian summer season was over.
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Michael Hussey scored 22 centuries in international cricket, 19 in Test matches and three in ODIs.
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Michael Hussey was born at Mount Lawley, a suburb of Perth.
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Michael Hussey attended Whitford Catholic Primary School in his early years and later Prendiville Catholic College in the northern suburbs of Perth.
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Michael Hussey's father is a former athletics coach and his younger brother, David, was a professional cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.
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Michael Hussey has the nickname Mr Cricket, due to his encyclopaedic knowledge of his sport.
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Michael Hussey has repeatedly stated that he dislikes the nickname finding it "a bit embarrassing".
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Michael Hussey was a cricket commentator in the Indian Premier League for the 2016 season.
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Several years after his retirement from the Big Bash League, Michael Hussey was appointed the role of Director of Cricket for the Sydney Thunder.
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Michael Hussey was appointed as the Batting Coach of Chennai Super Kings for 2018 Season of Indian Premier League.
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Away from cricket, Michael Hussey showed his support for Cancer Council WA by being their 2016 Ambassador.
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Michael Hussey is currently serving as batting coach in the Senior Men's England Cricket team.