Ian Harvey
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Ian Joseph Harvey | |||
| Born | 10 April 1972 Wonthaggi, Australia |
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| Nickname | Harvs, Freak | |||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||
| Batting style | Right Handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right Arm Medium | |||
| Role | All Rounder | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1993-2005 | Victoria | |||
| 1999-2006 | Gloucestershire | |||
| 2004-2005 | Yorkshire | |||
| 2005-2006 | Cape Cobras | |||
| 2007 | Derbyshire | |||
| 2008 | Hampshire | |||
| 2009 | Northamptonshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | ODIs | FC | OD | T20 |
| Matches | 73 | 165 | 304 | 41 |
| Runs scored | 715 | 8409 | 5973 | 1190 |
| Batting average | 17.87 | 34.60 | 24.88 | 32.16 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 15/46 | 2/28 | 3/4 |
| Top score | 48* | 209* | 112 | 109 |
| Balls bowled | 3279 | 24274 | 13601 | 785 |
| Wickets | 85 | 425 | 445 | 40 |
| Bowling average | 30.31 | 27.51 | 22.35 | 25.82 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 15 | 9 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 4/16 | 8/101 | 5/19 | 3/28 |
| Catches/stumpings | 17/- | 114/- | 83/- | 11/- |
| Source: Cricinfo, 22 May 2009 | ||||
Ian Joseph Harvey (b. 10 July 1972, Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian cricketer.
He is an all-rounder with a knack for making things happen in the game with his fielding, batting or bowling. He has a few nicknames, including "Freak", "Harvs" and "The Great Man". He was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2004.
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[edit] Australian Career
Harvey started his first-class cricket career with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield in 1993 as an all-rounder. He was called up to the Australian One Day cricket team in 1997 and has played 73 One Day Internationals. Harvey is a big hitting late order batsman who bowls tightly at the end of games equipped with a well disguised slower ball but did not hit an ODI half-century. This was a reason (as well as the emergence of Shane Watson) why he was dropped from the Australian ODI side. He appeared for Australia in the 2003 World Cup in Southern Africa as a replacement for the injured Watson. Harvey has the record of playing the most One Day Internationals (73) without ever appearing in a Test match.
[edit] English Career
Harvey played for Gloucestershire from 1999-2003 in the English County Championship and domestic one day competitions . He was an integral part of the team that won a number of one day trophies, including four one day finals in a row. Harvey also scored the first Twenty20 cricket century in 2003, and has scored 3 T20 centuries in all. In 2004 he switched counties to play for Yorkshire.
For 2006 he returned to play for both Gloucestershire and Victoria in the Pura Cup. He has signed to play for Derbyshire in 2007, but did not play a full season as his clearance to play as an English-qualified player was not received from the Home Office. Approval was delayed as a result of a drink-driving conviction, a decision which upset Derbyshire chief executive John Sears.[1]Derbyshire County Cricket Club allowed Ian to play for Middleton Cricket Club for a weekend as a temporary replacement for their professional.[2]
[edit] South African Career
For the 2005/06 season, Harvey played with the South African provincial side Nashua-Western Province Boland, where he also coached and commentated, sometimes doing 2 or all 3 at once.
[edit] Twenty20
Harvey excelled in the new form of Twenty20 cricket in 2003 scoring the first century, and has since scored 3 more T20 centuries. This record eventually led him to being picked to play in the first Indian Cricket League competition in 2007 for Chennai Superstars. This team won the inaugural league and he won the man of the match award in the final and also the player of the tournament.[3]
Being a specialist Twenty20 player, he has signed short term deals especially for the twenty20 with Hampshire Hawks in 2008 and Northamptonshire Steelbacks in 2009.[4] On his debut for Northants, he scored 12 with the bat but starred with the ball taking 4-18 of 4 overs to help them to a 17 run win against Warwickshire Bears.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Driving ban delays Harvey return". BBC Sport. 2007-05-18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/derbyshire/6668723.stm. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
- ^ "ECB block Harvey over citizenship". Cricinfo. 2007-05-08. http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/293493.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
- ^ Chennai Superstars win ICL 2007 - ICL Blog
- ^ Northants sign Harvey for Twenty20 cup - Sky Sports
- ^ Harvey turns game for Northants - BBC Sport
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