Ian Harvey

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Ian Harvey

Australia
Personal information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches - 73
Runs scored - 715
Batting average - 17.87
100s/50s -/- -/-
Top score - 48*
Balls bowled - 3279
Wickets - 85
Bowling average - 30.31
5 wickets in innings - -
10 wickets in match - n/a
Best bowling - 4/16
Catches/stumpings -/- 17/-

As of 1 January 2007
Source: Cricinfo

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.

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 has yet to hit an ODI half century. Because of this 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 Shane Watson. Harvey has played the most One Day Internationals (73) without appearing in a Test match.

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 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.

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]

Harvey played in the first Indian Cricket League competition in 2007 for Chennai Superstars. He played in the successful team which won the league being the man of the match in the final.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Driving ban delays Harvey return. BBC Sport (2007-05-18). Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
  2. ^ ECB block Harvey over citizenship. Cricinfo (2007-05-08). Retrieved on 2007-05-18.

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Australia squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup (3rd title)
1 Ponting • 2 Gilchrist • 3 Bevan • 4 Bichel • 5 Bracken • 6 Gillespie • 7 Harvey • 8 Hauritz • 9 Hayden • 10 Hogg • 11 Lee • 12 Lehmann • 13 Maher • 14 Martyn • 15 McGrath • 16 Symonds • 17 Warne • 18 Watson • Coach: Buchanan
Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne and Shane Watson were named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament
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