Ian Harvey
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Ian Joseph Harvey was born in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia on 10 July 1972. He is an Australian cricketer.
His nickname is the "Freak" as he has the knack to make things happen in the game with his fielding, batting or bowling. Ian started his first class cricket career with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield in 1993 as an all-rounder. He was called up to the Australian One Day cricket team in 1997 and has played 73 One-day Internationals. Harvey is a big hitting late order batsman who bowls tightly at the end of games but has yet hit a ODI half century. Because of this he was dropped from the Australian ODI side. He appeared for Australia in the 2003 World Cup in Southern Africa as a replacement for Shane Watson.
Harvey played for Gloucestershire in the English County Championship and was an integral part of the team that won a number of one day trophies, including four one day finals in a row. Harvey also scored the very first Twenty20 cricket century in 2003, for Gloucestershire. In 2004 he switched counties to play for Yorkshire.
In August 2005 Harvey was released from his contract with Victoria for the 2005/06 season to play with South African provincial side Nashua-Western Province Boland, where he was offered a lucrative two-year contract along with coaching and commentary duties.
Harvey is the only player to have hit more than one century in the history of the Twenty20 Cup. In fact, he has scored 3 out of the 12 centuries, that have been recorded since the competition started in 2003.
For 2006 he has returned to play for Gloucestershire.
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Australia squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Ponting | 2 Gilchrist | 3 Bevan | 4 Bichel | 5 Bracken | 6 Gillespie | 7 Harvey | 8 Hauritz | 9 Hayden | 10 Hogg | 11 Lee | 12 Lehmann | 13 Maher | 14 Martyn | 15 McGrath | 16 Symonds | 17 Warne | 18 Watson | Coach: Buchanan |
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