60 Facts About Mike Hussey

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.

Mike Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective formats, with 15,313 first-class runs before making his Test debut.

Mike 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.

Michael Mike Hussey announced his retirement from international cricket on 29 December 2012.

Mike 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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Mike 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.

When Mike 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, Mike Hussey went on to do just that.

Mike Hussey was a very occasional medium pace bowler, bowling only 98 overs in his Test career, 23 of them in 2008.

Mike 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.

Mike Hussey debuted for the Australian One-day team against India on 1 February 2004 at his home WACA ground in Perth.

Mike Hussey had come second overall in the Allan Border medal his first year in international cricket.

On 3 November 2006, Mike Hussey became the ICC's ODI Player of the Year at the annual ICC Awards in Mumbai.

Mike Hussey was named in its World ODI XI in 2006 and as 12th man in 2007.

On 18 September 2006, owing to Australia's rotation policy, and in Ricky Ponting's absence, Mike Hussey captained Australia for the first time in the DLF Cup second round match against West Indies at Kuala Lumpur.

Mike Hussey led Australia in the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy after selectors rested captain Ricky Ponting and vice-captain Adam Gilchrist.

Mike 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.

In early 2007, Mike 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.

Mike Hussey made a 53-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Brett Lee until Lee fell to Pathan.

Mike 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.

On 19 February 2012, Michael Mike Hussey became the 13th batsman to score 5000 runs for Australia in ODI cricket, when he scored 59 runs against India at the Gabba.

Mike 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.

Mike Hussey made 133 not out in the first innings and 30 not out in the second, bringing his Test average to 120.

Mike 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 Mike Hussey making a then career-best 182.

On 18 April 2006 Mike Hussey set a record as the fastest player in terms of time to reach 1,000 Test runs.

Mike Hussey was the fastest player to reach the top 10 of the LG ICC cricket ratings.

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Mike Hussey scored the winning runs and made 61 not out from 66 balls.

Mike Hussey was part of a record-breaking fourth-wicket partnership with Clarke.

Mike 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.

Mike Hussey played in all five of Ashes Test matches in England in 2009, scoring 276 runs in 8 innings.

Mike 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.

Australia were playing Pakistan and were losing badly when Mike Hussey proved yet again that he was brilliant with the tail end, scoring an unbeaten 134.

Mike Hussey was involved in a 344 run partnership with Michael Clarke, who managed to score an unbeaten 329*.

Mike Hussey was praised for his efforts and he cemented himself in the team after being under some serious pressure from critics and selectors.

Mike Hussey played his final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the last of Australia's three match series against Sri Lanka.

Mike Hussey was part of Australia's 2007 ICC World Twenty20 squad which was knocked out in the semi-finals.

Mike 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.

Mike Hussey played for the IPL team Chennai Super Kings, and he became the second batsman to score a century in the competition, after New Zealand's Brendon McCullum.

Mike Hussey scored 116 not out against the team Kings XI Punjab.

Mike Hussey chose to play for his Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings instead of his Australian state side Western Warriors in the inaugural Champions Twenty20 League although the 2008 event was eventually cancelled and neither side qualified in 2009.

Mike Hussey joined the Chennai Super Kings for the second half of the 2010 Indian Premier League along with teammate Doug Bollinger to reverse the fortunes of the side which eventually went on to win the title that year.

Mike Hussey played a crucial knock in the group-clash against the Chevrolet Warriors which was a must-win game for the Chennai Super Kings.

Mike Hussey scored 492 runs from his fourteen innings with his highest score is 81 not out against the RCB.

Mike Hussey has scored four half-centuries and three-man of the matches as well.

The 2013 season saw Mike Hussey hit 81 fours, face 566 deliveries and play out 202 dot balls.

Mike Hussey was picked up by the Mumbai Indians in 2014 for the 7th edition of the league as an opener but eventually released by them in 2015.

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Mike Hussey scored 22 centuries in international cricket; 19 in Tests and 3 in ODIs.

Mike Hussey is jointly 62nd overall among all-time combined century-makers.

Mike Hussey's father is a former athletics coach and his younger brother, David, was a professional cricketer who played for Victoria, Nottinghamshire, Chennai Super Kings and Australia.

Mike Hussey is a fan of Manchester United due to his dad.

Mike Hussey attended Whitford Catholic Primary School in his early years and later attended Prendiville Catholic College in the northern suburbs of Perth.

Mike Hussey has the nickname Mr Cricket, due to his encyclopaedic knowledge of his sport.

Mike Hussey has repeatedly stated that he dislikes the nickname finding it "a bit embarrassing".

Mike Hussey announced his retirement from international cricket after the 2012 Boxing Day Test at Melbourne.

Mike Hussey planned to play out the rest of the Australian summer in limited overs cricket but was surprisingly dropped with Australian selectors planning for the 2015 world cup and to give Phillip Hughes and Usman Khawaja an opportunity at ODI level.

Mike Hussey explained that his motivation for his retirement was to spend more time with his family.

Mike Hussey delayed his announcement until before the Sydney Test in 2013, fearing that he would have been dropped before the Australian summer season was over.

Mike Hussey was a cricket commentator in the Indian Premier League for the 2016 season.

Several years after his retirement from the Big Bash League, Mike Hussey was appointed the role of Director of Cricket for the Sydney Thunder.

Mike Hussey was appointed as the Batting Coach of Chennai Super Kings for 2018 Season of Indian Premier League.

Away from cricket, Mike Hussey showed his support for Cancer Council WA by being their 2016 Ambassador.