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Full name Kimberley John Hughes
Born January 26, 1954, Margaret River, Western Australia
Current age 54 years 254 days
Major teams Australia,Natal,Western Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
70
124
6
4415
213
37.41
9
22
444
27
50
0
ODIs
97
88
6
1968
98
24.00
2919
67.42
0
17
141
12
27
0
First-class
216
368
20
12711
213
36.52
26
69
155
0
List A
179
168
10
3961
119
25.06
1
28
53
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
70
6
85
28
0
-
-
-
1.97
-
0
0
0
ODIs
97
1
1
4
0
-
-
-
24.00
-
0
0
0
First-class
216
194
97
3
1/0
32.33
3.00
64.6
0
0
List A
179
80
61
2
2/38
2/38
30.50
4.57
40.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 25-30, 1977 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Dec 22-27, 1984 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Australia at Birmingham, Jun 4, 1977 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v India at Sharjah, Mar 29, 1985 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1975/76 - 1990/91
List A span
1975/76 - 1990/91
Profile
Kim Hughes made a century on debut for Western Australia, a poised hundred in his fourth Test, and captained Australia to victory in his 11th: a speedy eminence partly attributable to the absence of senior players with World Series Cricket, but an outcome also of native precocity. Not everything afterwards came so easily, though at his best his strokeplay gave off a reek of extravagance, as in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980, and danger, as in the Boxing Day Test of the following year. Between times, there were more melancholy moments: he was a luckless captain during the 1981 "Botham's Ashes" series, and a hapless target during his final four Test innings, which brought him only two runs. Identified with the cause of the Board by former Packer signatories, Hughes was only suffered by them as a skipper, and his tearful resignation at Brisbane in December 1984 after only four victories in 28 matches was one of that office's sorriest spectacles. He ended his international career leading the sanction-busting Australian "rebel" teams to South Africa, a disenchanted, alienated figure, like the captain of the Flying Dutchman. Gideon Haigh
