Mark Edward Waugh born on June 2nd 1965 in Canterbury,Australia was one of the best and classy openers Australia has ever had. He was well-known for his stylish display of shots through the off-side field. But his graceful play also made him to be called as a ‘lazy’ batsmen.
He came into the Australian team as an all-rounder but later mainly concentrated on his batting skills and progressed as an opener. Early in his career he used to open with the experienced Mark Taylor and Waugh just played his aggressive game but in his later part of the career he opened with the naturally aggressive Gilchrist, so he focused on anchoring the innings.
He contributed heavily for Australia up the order with over 8000 runs in both forms of the game. He had scored 20 tons in test cricket and 18 tons in one-day internationals. He also holds the record for the most number of catches taken in test match cricket which is to be broken by Rahul Dravid of India who is also on 181 catches right now. But to comment about his catching ability, he was very agile on the field and would cling on to anything that flew past him. Cricketing greats like Ian Chappel have described Mark Waugh as a fielder who caught many stunning and astonishing catches which were almost impossible compared to that of Dravid who mostly held onto safe ones.
Waugh’s career was always haunted by bribe scandals and other unwanted stuff which led to a bit of slump in his career. His enlightening career came to an awful end during the VB series including New Zealand and South Africa where he and Gilchrist performed really badly and the slow starts they gave made it difficult for the Aussies to make it to the finals of the tournament for the first time in five years.
The stylish right hand bat now works as a sports journalist for the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
He came into the Australian team as an all-rounder but later mainly concentrated on his batting skills and progressed as an opener. Early in his career he used to open with the experienced Mark Taylor and Waugh just played his aggressive game but in his later part of the career he opened with the naturally aggressive Gilchrist, so he focused on anchoring the innings.
He contributed heavily for Australia up the order with over 8000 runs in both forms of the game. He had scored 20 tons in test cricket and 18 tons in one-day internationals. He also holds the record for the most number of catches taken in test match cricket which is to be broken by Rahul Dravid of India who is also on 181 catches right now. But to comment about his catching ability, he was very agile on the field and would cling on to anything that flew past him. Cricketing greats like Ian Chappel have described Mark Waugh as a fielder who caught many stunning and astonishing catches which were almost impossible compared to that of Dravid who mostly held onto safe ones.
Waugh’s career was always haunted by bribe scandals and other unwanted stuff which led to a bit of slump in his career. His enlightening career came to an awful end during the VB series including New Zealand and South Africa where he and Gilchrist performed really badly and the slow starts they gave made it difficult for the Aussies to make it to the finals of the tournament for the first time in five years.
The stylish right hand bat now works as a sports journalist for the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
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