Merv Hughes Australia (AUS)
Batting style	Right-hand bat (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm fast (RF)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	53	33
Runs scored	1,032	100
Batting average	16.64	11.11
100s/50s	0/2	0/0
Top score	72*	20
BallsOvers bowled	2047.5	273.1
Wickets	212	38
Bowling average	28.38	29.34
5 wickets in innings	7	0
10 wickets in match	1	N/A
Best bowling	13/217	4/44
Catches/stumpings	23/0	6/0
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Mervyn Gregory Hughes (born 23 November 1961, Euroa, Victoria ) was a mercurial fast bowler who represented Australia between 1985 and 1994 in 53 Test matches taking 212 wickets and scoring over 1000 runs. He played 33 One Day Internationals taking 38 wickets. He took a hat trick in Test against the West Indies in 1988-89 and went on to take 8-87. In 1993 he took 31 Ashes in the Ashes Series against England. November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. ... West Indies cricket team shirt (ODI, 2004) The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies, is a national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of the Caribbean countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and... ...

Major teams: Victoria, Essex, Australian Capital Territory, Australia A (in the World Series), Australia. The Victorian Bushrangers are an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... Essex County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at the County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford, though with smaller grounds elsewhere. ...

Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: Right-arm fast

Hughes physical presence (a burly 6'4"), handlebar moustache a penchant for exuberant displays of affection for his fellow players (they called him "Fruitfly") and a run up that at times stretched to to 45 paces made him a firm favourite amongst supporters. In England on his second Ashes tour in 1993, the crowd chanted "Sumo" whenever he ran into bowl. Example of a handlebar moustache A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy, often graspable, extremities. ...

"Big Merv" was a notorious consumer of alcohol and food. Later in his career, this was felt to have increased damage to his knees and ultimately to have led to a shortening of his Australian and Victorian playing careers. Having always been rather overweight, he participated in both seasons of Channel Nine's Celebrity Overhaul, to lose weight and improve his fitness. He was the top performer (weight-wise) in the first season. The Nine Network is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia. ... Celebrity Overhaul is a show on Australias Channel Nine in which celebrities undergo a rigorous exercise and diet regimen aimed at improving their fitness and health. ...

Hughes started his career playing district cricket with Footscray in 1978-79. He was selected for Victoria in 1981-82 and made his debut against South Australia. Hughes first appeared for Austrlia against India in 1985-1986. He took 1-123 and was not re-selected until the Ashes Series against England the following year. Throughout his career, the Australian selectors viewed Hughes as a Test rather than one day player and he was generlly only selected for the shorter game when another player was injured or otherwise unavailable. Hughes played his last test in Cape Town against South Africa in 1994. For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ...

Later on in his career Hughes undertook an ambitious stint with the Canberra Comets which turned out to be hugely unsuccessful. He claimed only a single wicket in a season.

Hughes replaced Allan Border in June 2005 as a selector for the Australian cricket team. Allan Robert Border (born July 27, 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricket captain. ...

Merv is a prominent supporter of the Western Bulldogs Australian Football League team. The Western Bulldogs, formerly known as the Footscray Football Club or The Bulldogs is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in western suburban Melbourne, Australia, drawing its supporter base from this traditionally poor, industrial, and less leafy part of Melbourne. ... This is a page about the national league in Australian Rules Football. ...

References

• Patrick Keane, in association with Merv Hughes, Merv: the Full Story (1997)

See also

Sledging (cricket) In cricket, sledging is exchanging words with an opposition player which can put them off their usual game; it is an attempt to psych out an opponent. ...

External links

• Merv Hughes's Cricinfo profile