kim hughes Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
kim hughes is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Kimberley John Hughes
Born
January 26, 1954, Margaret River, Western Australia
Age
69 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 70 | 97 | - | - |
Inn | 124 | 88 | - | - |
Runs | 4415 | 1968 | - | - |
Avg | 37.42 | 24.0 | - | - |
SR | 43.8 | 67.42 | - | - |
HS | 213 | 98 | - | - |
NO | 6 | 6 | - | - |
100s | 9 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 22 | 17 | - | - |
4s | 444 | 141 | - | - |
6s | 27 | 12 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 70 | 97 | - | - |
Inn | 6 | 1 | - | - |
Balls | 85 | 1 | - | - |
Runs | 28 | 4 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 0 / 0 | 4 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 0 / 0 | 4 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 1.98 | 0.0 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- GA Hughes
- Australia
- Natal
- Western Australia
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
do much though. While his batting improved gradually, the wins never came for Australia. It did not help his cause that only 7 of his 28 Tests as captain, were played on home soil. In the 1981 Ashes, now remembered as Botham's Ashes, Hughes faced the ignominy of becoming the first skipper to lose a match after having enforced the follow on. Widespread criticism followed after Australia's loss to England. Hughes made himself a number of enemies too and the likes of Bob Simpson were open about their contempt for Hughes. He fought on though and ended up as the top scorer when England toured Australia for the next Ashes and helped them win the series. A lot of pride had been redeemed but it was not always going to be sweet for Hughes. He was the captain again in 1983-84 in the tour of West Indies. A severely depleted Australian team was humiliated by the mighty Windies. Hughes was forced to step down as captain at the end of the series. He was filled with emotion in the press conference when he read out the official statement and could not make it through the entire statement as tears flowed out. This act of Hughes was again ridiculed by the Australian public who seemed to think that crying out loud was an un-Australian thing to do. To this day though, it remains one of the saddest stories of cricket.
Hughes was further criticized when, after his retirement, he led a rebel tour to South Africa, who were then ostracized from the cricket community. He spent the rest of his days, playing domestic cricket in South Africa. His influence in Western Australian cricket remained though. He was the first person from WA to lead Australia in Tests and he later served as a selector for them for a short term.
By Ganesh Chandrasekaran
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Kim Hughes made a century on debut for Western Australia, a poised hundred in his fourth Test, and captained Australia to victory in his 11th: a speedy eminence partly attributable to the absence of senior players with World Series Cricket, but an outcome also of native precocity. Not everything afterwards came so easily, though at his best his strokeplay gave off a reek of extravagance, as in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980, and danger, as in the Boxing Day Test of the following year. Between times, there were more melancholy moments: he was a luckless captain during the 1981 "Botham's Ashes" series, and a hapless target during his final four Test innings, which brought him only two runs. Identified with the cause of the Board by former Packer signatories, Hughes was only suffered by them as a skipper, and his tearful resignation at Brisbane in December 1984 after only four victories in 28 matches was one of that office's sorriest spectacles. He ended his international career leading the sanction-busting Australian "rebel" teams to South Africa, a disenchanted, alienated figure, like the captain of the Flying Dutchman.
Gideon Haigh