michael klinger Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
michael klinger is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Michael Klinger
Born
July 04, 1980, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
Age
43 years old
Nicknames
Maxy
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Playing Role
Batter
Height
1.79 m
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | - | 3 | 4 |
Inn | - | - | 3 | 4 |
Runs | - | - | 143 | 73 |
Avg | - | - | 47.67 | 18.25 |
SR | - | - | 127.68 | 94.81 |
HS | - | - | 62 | 29 |
NO | - | - | 0 | 0 |
100s | - | - | 0 | 0 |
50s | - | - | 1 | 0 |
4s | - | - | 12 | 9 |
6s | - | - | 2 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | - | 3 | 4 |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- Adelaide Strikers
- Australia A
- Gloucestershire
- Gloucestershire 2nd XI
- Kochi Tuskers Kerala
- Perth Scorchers
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Worcestershire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Klinger was one of the unlucky players not to have played for the country despite a solid domestic record. The fact he was around when the Australia team was at its peak didn't go in his favour. He made his first-class debut way back in 1998/99 and has scored over 7500 runs including close to 20 centuries. He averages in the high 40s in the List-A format while T20 career also has impressive numbers.
Klinger exploits in Australia also earned him an IPL contract in 2011 with the Kochi Tuskers Kerala for whom he played a few games. He also travelled to England to represent Gloucestershire in the English domestic circuit. All along the while, there were vacancies in the Australian batting unit as they had to undergo transition phases. However, Klinger continued to be overlooked by the selectors, much to his agony. It didn't dampen his determination though as he kept churning out runs season after season across all formats. He led his BBL side to a title and was a star in county circuit as well, racking up runs without breaking a sweat. Such was his success there that he earned retention contracts.
Eventually in early 2017, Klinger got his Australia cap for the three-match T20I series at home against Sri Lanka as the Aussies opted to field a team largely made up for fringes with their key men preparing for the tour of India. Klinger enjoyed a good outing with a fifty and two thirty-plus scores but hasn't played a game after that. Klinger quietly continues to chip away at the runs and is already the highest run-scorer in BBL history. While it is proven that he can adapt across formats, he has particularly enjoyed white-ball cricket. With his age on the wrong side of the 30s, Klinger knows that chances of a budding international career are fading quickly. But as always, he will be ready whenever the call comes from the national selectors.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Michael Klinger has spent almost an entire career awaiting the Australia call that looked like it would never come. He has been mentioned in despatches more than once, but Australia have always opted for the younger, or the more fashionable, player. Through it all, Klinger has just kept scoring runs, and a call-up belatedly arrived at the age of 36 when he was named in Australia's T20 squad for a series against Sri Lanka in February 2017. A technically-correct top-order batsman with a penchant for the front foot, and who made his first-class debut in the 1990s, he has adapted to changing teams, formats and roles, and shown an aptitude for captaincy.
Klinger started in his home state of Victoria as a teenager but his progress was initially slow, and it took him five seasons to score his first hundred. A move to South Australia came in 2008-09 and it was such a successful change that in his first summer he piled up 1203 Sheffield Shield runs at 70.76, and was later handed the state's captaincy. He led the Redbacks to the 2010-11 Big Bash title and the 2011-12 Ryobi Cup, but in the Shield the team struggled and Johan Botha took over the leadership for 2012-13.
A move further west came in 2014, when Klinger signed with Western Australia after being told by the Redbacks that his place in the side could not be guaranteed. Another thousand-run Shield season followed with the Warriors, second only to team-mate Adam Voges in the whole competition. But while a Test call-up came for Voges at 35, the similarly-aged Klinger received no such international attention, and had to settle for another productive season with Western Australia in 2015-16.
Although his batting style would seem best suited to the long format, Klinger has proven an exceptional batsman in one-day and T20 cricket, where his correct strokeplay and good judgment of when to go aerial has been just as effective as the more adventurous batting of younger colleagues. He earned an IPL deal with Kochi Tuskers Kerala and in 2011 and at the time of his international T20 call-up, he was the all-time highest run scorer in BBL history. All of that was enough to persuade him to become a limited-overs specialist as he reached his mid-30s.
Named captain of Gloucestershire in 2013, he enjoyed an outstanding season in the UK with over 2000 runs across all formats and was welcomed back for the next four seasons in all competitions before negotiating a T20-only deal. Nothing was more impressive than his 531 runs at an average of 132.75 in the Royal London Cup which, in 2015, played a huge part in Gloucestershire reaching their first Lord's final for 11 years. He travelled back from Australia for the semi-final against Yorkshire and defied jetlag to make a matchwinning hundred. In the final at Lord's, he made a third-ball duck but this time Gloucestershire won without his usual domination.
ESPNcricinfo staff