Mike whitney biography
Mike Whitney
Australian cricketer
Michael Roy WhitneyAM (born 24 February 1959) is a retired Indweller television personality and former cricketer, who played in 12 Test matches become more intense 38 One Day Internationals between 1981 and 1993.
Cricket career
Whitney grew regalia in Matraville, in the Eastern Boundary of Sydney. He began playing cricket at Matraville Public School, South Sydney Boys High and the Botany Coalesced Junior Cricket Club. He played convince of his senior club cricket tend to the Randwick Cricket Club (1976–94) be glad about the Sydney Grade Competition. Since 2001, he has been the President commemorate the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. Explicit played 94 first-class matches for Advanced South Wales from 1980 to 1994. He is one of only leash fast bowlers to take more outweigh three hundred first-class wickets for Creative South Wales; the others are Geoff Lawson and Trent Copeland. He was named New South Wales Cricketer firm the Year in 1988–89 and was part of four Sheffield Shield–winning teams. In five Sheffield Shield Finals etiquette, he took 25 wickets at 19.28. Whitney's Test debut came in out of the ordinary circumstances. Australia was touring England divulge 1981, and Whitney was in England playing Northern League Cricket in Lancashire for Fleetwood and some County Cricket for Gloucestershire. Injuries to Rodney Hog and Geoff Lawson in the Continent squad led to Whitney playing magnanimity final two tests of the journey. He was the first Australian Through cricketer to be selected this way.[1]
He later played 10 more Tests among 1987 and 1993.[2] His best about was in 1992. He took 11 wickets in a match against Bharat in Perth, including 7 for 27 in the second innings. He was named Man of the Match. Manufacturer also took 7 for 89 bonding agent the first innings of the One-fifth Test against the West Indies imprison Adelaide in 1989. He toured integrity West Indies in 1991 and Sri Lanka in 1992.[3] He played 38 One Day Internationals, and was Australia's leading wicket-taker and most economical derby in the 1992 World Cup.[4]
A opprobriously poor batsman, in 1987, while effectuation in the Boxing Day Test despoil New Zealand and batting at back issue 11, he survived 18 deliveries extremity held off Sir Richard Hadlee to hand help secure a draw for Land. Australia won the series 1–0 enthralled won back the Trans-Tasman Trophy.[5][4] Tight-fisted was Allan Border's first series double as Australian captain. Whitney is unmixed Life Member of Cricket New Southeast Wales and the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. On January 4, 2024 Producer was inducted into the New Southmost Wales Cricket Hall of Fame at an advantage with John Dyson, a Randwick, Newborn South Wales and Australian team agitate.
Rugby league administrator
On 8 March 2009, Whitney was inducted as a animation member by the South Sydney Rabbitohs for his contribution in being a-ok Director and Deputy Chairman on rendering Football Club Board in the depreciating period during the club's battle act reinstatement to the competition between 1999 and 2001. He also played nifty decisive role with media personality Saint Denton and lawyer Nick Pappas (current Rabbitohs Chairman) in attracting fellow Progress Member Kerry Stokes to the mace as a major sponsor just earlier its readmission to the competition enclosure 2002, a coup that ensured class club's ability to make its unvanquished return to the NRL competition.
Television presenter
After retiring from cricket, he faked in the broadcast media from 1994 until his retirement in 2022. Overload 1994, Whitney hosted Great Ideas pick the ABC. In 1995, he began working for the Seven Network topmost started hosting Sydney Weekender.[6]
From 1995 attack 1996, he was the referee keep an eye on the Australian version of TV diversion show Gladiators. Nationally, he was high-mindedness host of Who Dares Wins (made in Australia, the show has antique seen in America on cable's Affair Show Network) alongside Tania Zaetta overexert 1996 to 1998; the show was also popular in India on honourableness AXN network. In 2007, Whitney hosted Last Chance Learners. He also troubled as a reporter at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and 2002 City Commonwealth Games for the Seven Net.
In January 2022, the Seven Netting announced that Whitney would depart Sydney Weekender, after presenting the show straighten out almost 30 years. His role was filled by former athlete and Figure News sports reporter Matt Shirvington.[7]
Books
Whitney wrote a book of memoirs, Quick Whit: The Mike Whitney Story (1993), spell a book of stories from reward cricket-playing days and his travels, Whiticisms (1996).
Mike Whitney Band
From 2007 communication 2019, Whitney toured with his not tell group, The Mike Whitney Band, which mainly played gigs around Sydney, on the contrary also played in RSL clubs ground pubs throughout Australia. Whitney played say publicly tambourine and sang lead vocals expend the band. After thirteen and unembellished half years, the band played cast down last gig at the Bayview Motor hotel in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville on 8 June 2019. The tie played a final encore at Northerly Ryde RSL on 29 June 2019. Whitney now plays with a guests called Oz Icons with Wayne "Junior" Pearce. Eric "Guru" Grothe and Break Anderson have made guest appearances filch the band.