Mark Waugh

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Mark Waugh Australia (Aus)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm Off Break (OB)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	128	244
Runs scored	8029	8500
Batting average	41.81	39.35
100s/50s	20/47	18/50
Top score	153*	173
Overs bowled	808.5	614.3
Wickets	59	85
Bowling average	41.16	34.56
5 wickets in innings	1	1
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best bowling	5/40	5/24
Catches/stumpings	181/0	108/0
As of 24 April 2005 Source: Cricinfo.com

Mark Edward Waugh AM (born June 2, 1965 in Sydney) is a former Australian cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, and made his one-day international debut in 1988. His nickname is "Junior" as he is younger than his brother Steve by a few minutes.

Contents 1 Key achievements 2 Career 3 Fielding 4 Involvement with bookmakers 5 After Retirement 6 References 6.1 Notes 7 External links

[edit] Key achievements

Waugh was primarily a right-handed batsman, batting in the No.4 position in Test matches, and was also a handy medium pace bowler, who changed to an off-spin bowler after back injuries restricted him. He is regarded as one of the best slip fielders ever to play cricket^{[citation needed]}, and holds the world record for most Test catches by a non-wicketkeeper.

He began as an all-rounder in the Australian ODI team, but he later focussed on batting and progressed to opening the batting, where he excelled and became Australia's leading one day runscorer. His three centuries at the 1996 Cricket World Cup made him the only batsman to ever achieve this feat, and a fourth century in the 1999 tournament made him the only Australian to score more than 1000 runs in World Cup competition and to score four centuries. He became the leading Australian run-scorer and century maker in ODIs during the 1999 tournament.

Waugh is regarded as one of the most elegant and gifted strokemakers to ever play the game^{[citation needed]} and was regularly in the top 10 rated batsman from the mid 1990s to 21st century. He was well-known for his general mastery of batting when facing spin bowling^{[citation needed]}. However his facile grace also lead to accusations that he was a "lazy" batsman who was vulnerable to soft dismissals^{[citation needed]}.

Waugh is the younger fraternal twin brother [1] of Steve Waugh, with whom he played for most of his career and also under his captaincy. They hold the record for the most Test and ODI matches in which siblings appeared together.

[edit] Career

Mark Waugh made his first class debut for New South Wales in 1985/86 where he was initially an opening bowler. He made his name as an all-rounder at the state level, but was overlooked for the Australian team early in his career in favour of his twin brother. In the late 1980s, the call for Waugh to be selected for higher honours grew louder as he was named the Sheffield Shield player of the year twice in succession, with a batting average of well over 50. He finally made his Test match debut for Australia against England in the fourth match of the series of 1990/91 at the Adelaide Oval. Ironically, his selection for this game was at the expense of his twin brother Steve, who had been a fixture in the side for years, but was suffering from a lack of form. Waugh marked his debut in style, scoring 138 in his first innings. When Steve was recalled for the third Test in Trinidad, this marked the first time that twins had played in the same Test match. He then followed this up with a score of 139* against the then dominant West Indies in early 1991, shepherding the tailenders from the likes of Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose, whilst managing to score a century between tea and stumps at St. John's, Antigua in the fifth Test.

During the 1991-92 Australian summer, he was dropped in favour of Tom Moody for the ODI team in the early part of the season, after a poor performance against the touring Indian cricket team in the First Test in Brisbane. Further poor form throughout the summer, in which he scored 83 runs at 13.8, he was dropped from the Test team in favour of Moody for the fifth Test at the WACA Ground. However, he was recalled to the One day side for the remainder of the summer following an injury to Bruce Reid but only managed 20 runs at 6.67. He was part of the team which failed to defend the 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, but did not play a full tournament, due to his poor form. After scoring 2 in the opening match against New Zealand at Eden Park, he was dropped and for the following games against South Africa, India and England. He played in the last four matches, as Australia failed to make the semi-finals with the highlight being an unbeaten 66 from just 39 balls against Zimbabwe at Bellerive Oval.

This was followed by a torrid tour to Sri Lanka in which he scored four consecutive ducks on his return to Test cricket, after Moody was elevated to the opening position.

He returned to form in the 1992-93 Australian season when he scored 112 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to help set up an Australian 1-0 lead in the Frank Worrell Trophy series against the West Indies. He also displayed his all-round talents in an ODI in which he scored a half-century and took 5-24 to spark a West Indies collapse to successfully defend a small Australian total.

Waugh had a poor start in 1993, being dropped from the Test team after two unproductive Tests on the New Zealand tour in favour of Damien Martyn. After the failure of the previous World Cup, skipper Allan Border decided to try a new strategy, and promoted Waugh to the opening slot for the New Zealand series. He scored 60 and 57 in the first two matches to help set up and Australian victory, and then scored his maiden ODI century of 108 in Hamilton, despite an Australian loss. He rounded off the series with 83 in the final match to top the run-scoring aggregates and averages: 308 runs at 61.6. After his strong ODI run, he scored 174 in a tour match against Surrey County cricket club to reclaim his Test position from Martyn during the Ashes Tour. He scored an ODI and Test century at Edgbaston in his first Ashes tour. It was marred however, when he missed a century at Lord's, the home of cricket, when he was bowled for 99 by Phil Tufnell from a ball that rolled off his pads. Waugh described Tufnell's defensive style of pitching the ball far outside leg stump as "terrible bowling" and a "very negative piece of cricket". He was a vocal critic of Tufnell, who dismissed him more than 10 times in Tests via the tactic of tying Waugh down with wide bowling, calling him a "pretty weak fellow". He completed the year with a century against New Zealand in Hobart, totalling 987 runs in the calendar year.

He started 1994 well, being named Man of the Finals in the Benson and Hedges World Series against South Africa and New Zealand and then scored a century in the drawn Third Test in Durban in 1994 against South Africa. He was embroiled in controversy later in 1994 when he claimed that Saleem Malik, the Pakistan captain, had offered him, Tim May and Shane Warne money to perform poorly on the 1994 tour to Pakistan. He scored two half-centuries in Tests and an ODI century on that tour.

He had a solid 1994-95 Australian summer, scoring 140, his highest Test score to date in the First Test against England at Brisbane, and later taking his career best Test bowling figures of 5-40 in Adelaide albeit on a losing side (Australia's only loss in that Test series). He then combined with Steve Waugh at Sabina Park in the fourth Test in Jamaica for a 236-run partnership, with a score of 126 that set up Australia's first series win over the West Indians in more than 20 years. After the series, Mark was 2nd on the ICC Test batting rankings, behind his brother.

Waugh had a productive 1995-96 Australian summer, scoring two centuries and four half-centuries against the visiting Sri Lankan and Pakistani cricket teams. He also gradually worked his way up the batting order, and was made an opening batsman in ODIs in early 1996 following the axing of Michael Slater, where he batted until the end of his career. In his first match in the role, he scored 130 against Sri Lanka at the WACA ground. It was also the year in which he converted to off-spin bowling, due to back injuries.

Waugh was one of the leading players at the 1996 Cricket World Cup on the Indian subcontinent. Opening the batting, he scored 130 in Australia's opening game against Kenya in Visakhapatnam, the highest World Cup score by an Australian. He followed this up with 126 against hosts India in Bombay, and then dismissed Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar for 90 when he was dismantling the Australian attack in the run chase. Waugh was named Man of the Match on both occasions. He scored an unbeaten 76 against Zimbabwe in the following match in Nagpur, and although he scored only 30 in the final group game against the West Indies in Jaipur, he took the leading bowling figures with 3-38. In the quarter-final against New Zealand in Madras, he scored his third century, 110 to power Australia to a successful run chase, again winning the Man of the Match. Although he managed only 0 and 12 in the semi-final and final, he finished with 484 runs at 80.66 for the tournament, second only to Tendulkar. His 5 wickets also made him Australia's fourth leading wicket-taker.

After failing to score a Test century against the West Indies during the 1996-97 home season, he scored 116 against South Africa in Port Elizabeth, successfully steering a run-chase on a green wicket. It is regarded by many as his finest Test innings. His ODI series was a mixed bag, missing the first match due to back spasms, before scoring an unbeaten century to steer a successful run-chase in Port Elizabeth in the next. He then split his hand webbing whilst missing a catch and missed two further matches due to the injury. He had an unproductive Ashes tour in 1997, and finished the year on a bad note, scoring only 0 and 1 against South Africa in the Boxing Day Test match.

In the 1997-98 Test series against South Africa, Waugh scored 100 in the New Year's Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground to set up an Australian victory before batting for the entire fifth day for an unbeaten 115 in the 3rd Test at the Adelaide Oval to deny the South Africans a victory, securing the series victory for the Australians. It was in that match-saving innings with Australia seven wickets down that Waugh was involved in a controversial incident, when he was struck by a bouncer from Shaun Pollock late on the final day's play. Whilst walking away, he struck the stumps with his bat, sparking a South African appeal for hit wicket, which was denied. It was only the second time in his career that he had scored consecutive centuries.

Waugh's strong start to the year continued in India, when he scored his highest Test score of 153 not out in Bangalore, despite being ridden with nausea, vomiting and fever, which caused him to discard his helmet for a broad-brimmed hat for one the few times in his career.

His Pakistan tour later in the year was disrupted when he was forced to appear in court to give evidence relating to allegations of match-fixing against Salim Malik. However, he still managed to score a century in Karachi despite the distraction.

By the end of the year however, news broke during the 1998-99 Ashes series that he and Shane Warne had accepted money from Indian bookmakers to give pitch and weather information. Both were fined for their actions. Waugh was famously booed onto Adelaide Oval immediately after the scandal erupted, and apparently rattled by the reception, he batted scratchily before being dismissed. He ended the 1998 year with more than 1000 Test runs.

Waugh made another good start to 1999, scoring 121 in the New Year's Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground, ending the Ashes series with 393 at 56.14. He followed this by scoring six consecutive half-centuries in a consistent run in the Limited Overs format leading up to the 1999 Cricket World Cup in England. His tally of 542 runs at 49.27 was the highest for the tournament. He served as vice-captain to Shane Warne for the majority of the Limited Overs tournament, with Steve being sidelined with a hamstring strain.

During the World Cup, Waugh top-scored in two must-win matches in the Super Six round, with 83 against India at The Oval and a fourth World Cup century of 104 in a Super Six match against Zimbabwe at Lord's. Waugh passed Allan Border's Australian record of 6524 runs in ODIs during the innings, which he dedicated to his dying grandfather. He was then run out in the final Super Six match against South Africa and was dismissed in the semi-final against same team without scoring, as had occurred at the previous World Cup. In the final against Pakistan at Lord's, he set the tone of the match with a sideways diving catch to dismiss Wajahatullah Wasti, and was at the crease, 37 not out when Darren Lehmann struck the winning runs. He is the leading Australian run-scorer in World Cups, being the only Australian to have scored more than 1000 runs, and was the second leading Australian run-scorer for the tournament behind his brother, totalling 375 at 41.66.

He made a strong start to the 1999-2000 Australian summer, scoring 100 in the first Test against Pakistan in Brisbane, and then taking a reflex catch to dismiss Inzamam-Ul-Haq in the second Test at Bellerive Oval, Hobart. However, after a failure in the third Test in Perth, he gave a poor display in the first Test against India at the Adelaide Oval which led to calls for his axing. After being dismissed cheaply in the first innings, he came out to bat in the second innings late on the third day, and was protected from the strike by Greg Blewett, who refused to singles hit into the outfield. After being jeered, he was eventually dismissed the next day for 8, after batting almost an hour. He managed a survivalist 41 and an unbeaten half-century in the following match in Melbourne to avoid being dropped, making his 100th Test appearance in the 2000 New Year's Test in Sydney. Further poor displays in the subsequent ODI format, including an innings of 3 from 30 balls, lead to repeated calls for his omission, until he scored a 116 at Adelaide Oval on Australia Day against India to lay the foundation for Australia's largest ever total on home soil of 5 for 329. He retained his position for the tour of New Zealand, where he scored 206 runs at 41.2 in the abbreviated form of the game. He then scored an unbeaten 72 in the First Test at Eden Park to set up a victory in a low-scoring game, ending the series with 190 runs at 47.5. However, a run of seven matches during the 2000 Australian winter in which he tallied only 84 runs at 12 again saw further media speculation of impending demise.

After the being close to omission the previous season, Waugh made a good start to the 2000-01 season, scoring 119 against the West Indies in the second Test in Perth. He added two further half-centuries to total 339 runs at 48.4 as the Windies were defeated 5-0. His productive summer continued in the limited-overs format when he went on to score an Australian ODI record of 173 in the second tri-series final against the West Indies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which has recently been overtaken by Mathew Hayden. It was one of three ODI centuries he scored in that tournament, the others being a 112 and 102, both not out, against the West Indies and Zimbabwe respectively. In total he scored 540 runs in the series at an average of 108. As the leading run-scorer by far in the tournament, he was expected to be named Player of the Series, resulting in widespread crowd jeering when it was instead awarded to Brian Lara. Waugh was also tipped to win the Allan Border Medal due to his prolific runscoring that year. However, despite leading the player votes with 32, the umpire and media thought otherwise, awarding Steve Waugh 37 votes to Mark Waughs' 32, making Steve Waugh the winner 65-64.

The 2001 tour of India saw Australia's 16 Test winning streak come to an end when India claimed the series 2-1. Waugh scored 70 and 57 in the final Test in Chennai to finish with 149 runs at 29.8 in a difficult series. Waugh continued his fine ODI form with another century, an unbeaten 133 against India in the second ODI against India in Pune April 2001, but was forced to return home after his finger was fractured by a Javagal Srinath delivery.

He proceeded to the 2001 Ashes series, scoring 108 to claim the century at Lord's which had eluded him 8 years earlier, and breaking Mark Taylor's Test catching record of 157 catches. He went on to score 120 in the fifth Test at The Oval to top the Test run scoring aggregate for the series, with 430 runs at 86.

Upon his return for the 2001-02 Australian summer, Waugh was unable to maintain his recent form, totalling 269 at 33.6 in three Tests each against New Zealand and South Africa, with a half century against each team. He found himself under media criticism after both sides repeatedly used short-pitched bowling to prevent him from scoring. Nevertheless he celebrated two milestones, with the first Test at the Adelaide Oval marked the 100th Test in which both Waugh brothers made played, and the following match marking his 100th consecutive Test match. Waugh and fellow opener one-day opener Gilchrist found themselves in a batting slump during the VB series, with Waugh averaging 26 for the series and Gilchrist even less. Such frequent poor batting starts resulted in Australia failing to qualify for the final of tri-series for the first time in five years. As the selectors had done then, Steve and Mark Waugh, the oldest members of the team were axed and younger players were introduced.

Waugh continued in the Test team during the tour of South Africa in early 2002, and although he passed 15 in each of his innings, he managed only one half century, totalling 169 at 33.8. He had a brief stint for Essex in the English county season in an attempt to regain form, tallying 242 at 80.66. He was subsequently retained for the series against Pakistan, to be held on neutral territory in Sri Lanka and the UAE due to security reasons. He totalled 80 runs at 20, with one half-century in his last Test series. He retired from international cricket in late 2002 after being omitted for the upcoming Test series against England in favour of Darren Lehmann.

He retired as the world record holder for most Test catches, with 181. He had scored 8029 Test runs at an average of 41.81 and taken 59 Test wickets at an average of 41.16. In the one-day arena, he compiled 8500 runs at an average of 39.35 and took 85 wickets at an average of 34.56.

He was married for the first time on April 9, 2005 to Sydney Cup-winning thoroughbred trainer Kim Waugh (nee Moore).

Mark Waugh was Australia's highest run-scorer in One Day International cricket, after breaking Allan Border's record in 1999, until it was broken in December 2005 by Ricky Ponting. He also scored 18 ODI centuries, which was an Australian record until broken by Ponting.

[edit] Fielding

Waugh took a record 181 catches in Test matches, the highest for a non wicket-keeper. He primarily fielded in the second slip position whilst a fast bowler was operating. He would field at silly point whilst a spin bowler was operating, and then at first slip for a spinner following the retirement of Mark Taylor. He would also field at mid-wicket or short mid-wicket when he was not required in a close catching position, and also during ODIs.

[edit] Involvement with bookmakers

In 1993, Mark Waugh was competing as part of the Australian team in the Hong Kong Sixes, with one of the Indians being Test all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar ^[1]. A report by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2000 implicated Prabhakar for acting as a conduit for bookmakers involved in illegal cricket betting, resulting in a five year ban. The report also documented allegations by Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta that Prabhakar had introduced him to Waugh during the tournament and that Waugh was paid A$20,000 for insider information about the Australian team, as well as pitch and weather information. Waugh immediately pledged to cooperate with any inquiry, when the allegations were made public with the tabling of the report in November 2000. In January 2001, the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit along with the ACB's special investigator Greg Melick requested an interview with Waugh, which his management "presently declined", with his legal team seeking further clarification of the scope of the investigation. After condemnation from the ACB and media, as well as been threatened with sacking, Waugh agreed to the interview ^[2]. He was cleared in August 2001 ^[3].

During the Singer World Series tournament in Sri Lanka, September 1994, involving India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Waugh made a decision which came back to affect his career four years later. He was approached in Colombo by an Indian named "John", a bookmaker who asked him for general pitch and weather information as well as insider team information, in return for USD4000. Waugh accepted the money, with the arrangement in place until the end of the 1994/95 Australian summer, but he refused to divulge inside team information. Waugh also introduced "John" to Shane Warne^[4]. On the following tour of Pakistan, Waugh claimed that along with Warne and Tim May, he was offered A$200,000 to underperform by Pakistani captain Salim Malik. The offer was in regard to an ODI in Rawalpindi on October 22, if the Australian team were to lose. Waugh says he rejected the bribe, and went on to score 121* from 134 deliveries the following day^[5]. The trio signed a statement in early 1995 stating their claims, which were forwarded to the ICC^[6]. In October 1995, a Pakistan Cricket Board inquiry led by former Pakistani Supreme Court judge Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim ruled that the allegations "are not worthy of any credence and must be rejected as unfounded", stating that they "appear to have been concocted"^[7]. However, during the 1998 tour to Pakistan, the issue was again raised, as the Government of Pakistan had initiated a separate judicial inquiry into general issues regarding the performance of the Pakistani team and allegations of illegal betting by past and former players. Waugh, along with captain Mark Taylor and ACB CEO Malcolm Speed were summoned to Lahore by PCB CEO Majid Khan to appear before the inquiry lead by Justice Malik Mohammed Qayyum during the tour, as well as facing Malik^[8]. In December 1998, prior to the Adelaide Test match against England, news broke that Waugh and Warne were involved with "John" four years earlier and that they were privately fined by ACB for it. Both were forced to make public statements acknowledging that they had been "naive and stupid" and reasserting that they had not been involved in corruption. The players were widely condemned by the media and public, with Prime Minister of Australia John Howard stating that he felt an "intense feeling of disappointment" and former player Neil Harvey calling for bans^[9]. Eventually in May 2000, the PCB banned Malik for life, upon recommendations from the Qayyum investigation, which concluded that Malik had attempted to bribe Waugh, Warne and May^[10].

[edit] After Retirement

In 2005 Waugh was acknowledged for his services to cricket when he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). He now works as a sports journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, and has also worked for Fox Sports, Channel Seven show Sportsworld and as a Tour Guide for Australian Sports Tours.

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Cricinfo Player Profile : Mark Edward Waugh

Persondata
NAME	Waugh, Mark Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Canterbury, New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH