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Article: Cricket World Cup: Come in No 6, your time is now The One-Day Specialist: Michael Bevan of Australia
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 9, 1999
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WHOEVER HEARD of a "specialist No 6 batsman"? A specialist
opening batsman certainly, maybe a specialist No 3 but in all of
cricket history it has been a case of assemble the rest as you
please. Then along comes Michael Bevan and rewrites cricket
orthodoxy.
Faithful Bevan watchers are not surprised. From the moment he
first picked up a bat in his left hand his cricket career has been a
sort of contradiction.
In the Eighties, the talent scouts called him a natural, a fluent
shot- maker who could bowl unorthodox left-arm spin as well as pace,
and he was like a deer in the field. Just when the headline writers
had the makings of "another Bradman" they had to settle for
"Australia's own Sobers". ...