Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

Personal information
Full name	Michael Edward Killeen Hussey
Born	27 May 1975 (1975-05-27) Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia
Nickname	Mr. Cricket, Huss
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Role	Batsman
Relations	DJ Hussey (brother)
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 393)	3 November 2005 v West Indies
Last Test	2–6 January 2013 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 150)	1 February 2004 v India
Last ODI	25 August 2012 v Afghanistan
ODI shirt no.	48
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1994 –	Western Australia (squad no. 2)
2001–2003	Northamptonshire
2004	Gloucestershire
2005	Durham
2008 – present	Chennai Super Kings (squad no. 48)
2011 – present	Perth Scorchers
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	79	185	268	378
Runs scored	6,235	5,442	22,448	12,088
Batting average	51.52	48.15	52.44	44.31
100s/50s	19/29	3/39	61/101	12/90
Top score	195	109*	331*	123
Balls bowled	588	240	2,052	786
Wickets	7	2	27	20
Bowling average	43.71	117.50	40.48	41.45
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	1/0	1/22	3/34	3/52
Catches/stumpings	85/–	105/–	299/–	198/–
Source: Cricinfo, 25 August 2012

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey (born 27 May 1975) also known as Mike Hussey is a former Australian Test cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. 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. However, he has had a highly successful international career, being the top-ranked ODI batsman in the world in 2006. He plays first-class cricket as vice-captain of the Western Warriors in Australia and has played for three counties in England. He also plays in the Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings, although he opted out of the 2009 season. He was retained by Chennai Super Kings in the 2011–2012 season of Indian Premier League for $425,000 at auctions held in January 2011. Michael Hussey announced his retirement from international cricket on 29 December 2012, motivated by the desire to spend more time with his family. His last international Test appearance was the third Test against Sri Lanka at the SCG, in January 2013.

Batsmen with a Test batting average above 50 v • t • e Australia Donald Bradman (99.94) • Greg Chappell (53.86) • Michael Clarke (52.96) • Ricky Ponting (51.85) • Jack Ryder (51.62) • Michael Hussey (51.52) • Steve Waugh (51.06) • Matthew Hayden (50.73) • Allan Border (50.56) England Herbert Sutcliffe (60.73) • Eddie Paynter (59.23) • Ken Barrington (58.67) • Wally Hammond (58.45) • Jack Hobbs (56.94) • Len Hutton (56.67) • Ernest Tyldesley (55.00) • Denis Compton (50.06) India Vinod Kambli (54.20) • Virat Kohli (53.76) • Sachin Tendulkar (53.78) • Rahul Dravid (52.31) • Cheteshwar Pujara (51.19) • Sunil Gavaskar (51.12) New Zealand Kane Williamson (53.38) Pakistan Javed Miandad (52.57) • Mohammad Yousuf (52.29) • Younus Khan (52.05) South Africa Graeme Pollock (60.97) • Jacques Kallis (55.37) • Dudley Nourse (53.81) • AB de Villiers (50.66) Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara (57.40) West Indies * George Headley (60.83) • Everton Weekes (58.61) • Garfield Sobers (57.78) • Clyde Walcott (56.68) • Charlie Davis (54.20) • Brian Lara (52.88) • Shivnarine Chanderpaul (51.37) • Viv Richards (50.23) Zimbabwe Andy Flower (51.54)

Batsmen with a ODI batting average above 40 v • t • e Australia George Bailey (40.58) • Michael Bevan (53.58) • Michael Hussey (48.15) • Adam Voges (45.78) • Michael Clarke (44.58) • Dean Jones (44.61) • Matthew Hayden (43.80) • Ricky Ponting (42.03) • Shane Watson (40.54) • Callum Ferguson (41.43) • Damien Martyn (40.80) • Greg Chappell (40.18) Bangladesh England Jonathan Trott (51.25) • Kevin Pietersen (40.73) • Nick Knight (40.41) • Chris Broad (40.02) India Mahendra Singh Dhoni (50.57) • Virat Kohli (59.70) • Shikhar Dhawan (44.90) • Sachin Tendulkar (44.83) • Sourav Ganguly (41.02) New Zealand Glenn Turner (47.00) Pakistan Zaheer Abbas (47.62) • Misbah-ul-Haq (43.40) • Mohammad Yousuf (41.71) • Javed Miandad (41.70) South Africa Hashim Amla (49.46) • AB de Villiers (53.50) • Jacques Kallis (44.36) • Boeta Dippenaar (42.23) • Lance Klusener (41.10) • Gary Kirsten (40.95) West Indies Viv Richards (47.00) • Gordon Greenidge (45.03) • Ramnaresh Sarwan (42.67) • Shivnarine Chanderpaul (41.60) • Desmond Haynes (41.37) • Brian Lara (40.48) The Netherlands Ryan ten Doeschate (67.00)