michael slater Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
michael slater is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Michael Jonathon Slater
Born
February 21, 1970, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Age
53 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Other
Commentator
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 74 | 42 | - | - |
Inn | 131 | 42 | - | - |
Runs | 5312 | 987 | - | - |
Avg | 42.84 | 24.07 | - | - |
SR | 53.3 | 60.4 | - | - |
HS | 219 | 73 | - | - |
NO | 7 | 1 | - | - |
100s | 14 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 21 | 9 | - | - |
4s | 598 | 95 | - | - |
6s | 30 | 2 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 74 | 42 | - | - |
Inn | 3 | 2 | - | - |
Balls | 25 | 12 | - | - |
Runs | 10 | 11 | - | - |
Wkt | 1 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 4 / 1 | 0 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 4 / 1 | 0 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 2.4 | 5.5 | - | - |
Avg | 10.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- Derbyshire
- New South Wales
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
The man from New South Wales was a prodigy from his teens and sprung up the ladder of domestic cricket with considerable ease. It was only a matter of time before the national call up happened and that came in 1993. Slater took to Test cricket with effortless ease and had a fine debut year, impressing everyone with his attitude and range of strokes. Barring 1996 where he hardly played any matches, he mostly contributed consistently for the side and was pivotal to Australia's steady rise as a dominant force in world cricket. While Slater's brilliance fetched him 14 Test tons, he also failed to get past the 90s as many as nine times - a fact that he regrets till date. Nevertheless, he was a thorough entertainer at the crease and seldom failed to thrill the crowd.
For such a naturally aggressive batsman, it was an irony of the highest order that Slater could never get going in ODIs. He did begin his career with a fifty but only managed this feat once more in the next 29 innings, resulting in his permanent axing in 1997. It was a puzzle that could never be solved and fair to say that Slater was the most disappointed person in this matter than anybody else. Despite his ODI failures, the Test career chugged along merrily till the 2000-01 season when some cracks started to appear. Although Australia emphatically won the Ashes in 2001, Slater's form was a concern and his runs had dried up considerably that year. After that series, he got dropped from the side.
Despite being dropped from the side, Slater battled hard in the domestic circuit with an aim of earning a comeback but that never really happened. The emergence of Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer further complicated his chances and consequently, he retired from the game in 2004 after a brief illness. During his hiatus as a cricketer, Slater got offers in TV commentary and adapted to that role instantly. He continues to be a lively analyst with the mike in hand and travels across the globe for different channels. As a batsman, Slater was definitely ahead of the times in terms of his attitude to the game. A fine Test player, his only flaw was that he couldn't repeat the feats in the 50-over format.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A combative and wholehearted cricketer, Michael Slater has played many vital innings for New South Wales and as an Australia opener with his adventurous brand of strokeplay.
A product of Wagga Wagga, his was a meteoric rise. Following a stint at the Australian Cricket Academy, he made rapid strides, turning a place in the New South Wales Second XI at the start of the 1992-93 season into a berth in Australia's 1993 Ashes squad by the end of that summer. After notching a half-century in the opening match of that series - alongside fellow New South Welshman, Mark Taylor - and complementing it with a brilliant century in the following encounter at Lord's, he soon became a regular in his nation's Test team.
Aside from the period between October 1996 and March 1998, Slater occupied a position at the top of the Australian Test batting line-up for close to a decade. Amid a golden run of success for the team as a whole, individual highlights have included his 219 against Sri Lanka in Perth in 1995-96; and his brilliant home series against New Zealand in 1993-94 (which netted him 305 runs at 76.25) and England (623 runs at 62.30) in 1994-95. His signature trait of kissing his helmet whenever he reached three figures was seen 14 times, and he made scores in the nineties on a record-breaking nine occasions. He also played in each of the 16 matches between late 1999 and early 2001 which delivered the then Australian team the greatest run of consecutive victories in the history of Test cricket.
Ironically, Slater's aggressive approach didn't translated to similar results in one-day cricket. He produced a spectacular 73 on his one-day international debut but did not reach such heights again and did not played in an international limited-overs match after 1997.
After a prolonged form slump, Slater was dropped from the Australian Test side in August 2001 for the fifth Ashes Test. The following Australian summer - and under intense media scrutiny of both his professional and personal life - Slater then struggled to maintain a place in the New South Wales side. He continued to plug away, but as his career as a commentator took off, so his form with the bat, and appetite for the game, declined. He suffered a debilitating illness during the 2003-04 summer and announced his retirement in June 2004.
John Polack (June 2004)