Michael Bevan seems to be included in the Australia batting lineup as an afterthought. He often bats at six or seven, which is perhaps because he has never come into his own as a Test batsman. As a one-day player, though, he has more than enough firepower. Just as a bowling side thinks it is getting into the tail, Bevan pops up and marshalls a more than able lower order in bolstering the innings.

 

An outstanding one-day batting average is helped in part that position in the order, meaning he often ends an innings not out.

On the Test scene, his vulnerablity to short-pitch bowling has lead to his being ignored since 1997/98 but that problem is eliminated in the one-day game, where hostile bowling is banned. Bevan has worked on his left-arm wrist spin to become a useful allrounder, his 'bits and pieces' ability developed during several first class seasons in England with Yorkshire and Sussex