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Full name | Michael Hubert Austen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa | 17 May 1964|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1982/83–1988/89 | Western Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1989/90–1991/92 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992/93–1995/96 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996/97–1997/98 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 5 March 1983 Western Province B v Border | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 29 March 1997 Otago v Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 15 October 1983 Western Province B v Transvaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 14 January 1998 Otago v Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricInfo,31 December 2021 |
Michael Hubert Austen (born 17 May 1964) [1] is a South African-born cricketer who played for Western Province in South African domestic cricket between the 1982/83 and 1988/89 seasons and for Otago and Wellington between the 1989/90 and 1997/98 seasons. [2] Austen worked as a doctor throughout his career in New Zealand. [3]
Austen was born at Cape Town in South Africa in 1964. [1] He was educated at Rondebosch Boys High School and worked professionally as a doctor. [4] He made his senior debut for Western Province B in a SAB Bowl match against Border in March 1983. He played mainly for Western Province B in the Bowl competition,before making four appearances for Western Province in the 1987/88 Currie Cup. He played a single first-class match for a South African Universities side in 1987. [2]
He moved to New Zealand to play for Otago at the start of the 1989/90 season,moving to Wellington for four seasons before returning to Otago to finish his first-class career. [2] In total he played in 66 first-class cricket and 60 List A cricket matches,scoring almost 5,000 runs and taking 94 senior wickets. [1]
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