Andy Bichel

Personal information

Full name

Andrew John Bichel

Born

27 August 1970
Laidley, Queensland, Australia

Nickname

Bic

Height

1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

Right-arm medium-fast

Role

All-rounder

International information

National side

Australia

Test debut (cap 371)

25 January 1997 v West Indies

Last Test

12 December 2003 v India

ODI debut (cap 130)

5 January 1997 v West Indies

Last ODI

1 February 2004 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1992–2007

2001–2004

2005

2006–2007

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	19	67	186	235
Runs scored	355	471	5,860	2,491
Batting average	16.90	20.47	26.51	20.58
100s/50s	0/1	0/1	9/23	1/5
Top score	71	64	148	100
Balls bowled	3,337	3,257	37,197	11,433
Wickets	58	78	769	320
Bowling average	32.24	31.57	25.98	26.13
5 wickets in innings	1	2	36	4
10 wickets in match	0	0	7	0
Best bowling	5/60	7/20	9/93	7/20
Catches/stumpings	16/–	19/–	91/–	73/–

Source: Cricinfo, 13 May 2010

Andrew John "Andy" Bichel (born 27 August 1970) is a retired Australian cricketer. He was primarily a right-arm medium-fast bowler, but was also a hard-hitting lower-order batsman.

Bichel played 19 Test matches and 67 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1997 and 2004, and represented Queensland in the Australian domestic competitions. He also played for Worcestershire, Hampshire and Essex in English county cricket.

Since retiring from playing, Bichel has been a coach and a selector. He is currently the bowling coach for the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.

Background and career

Bichel made his Test debut for the Australian Cricket Team in Adelaide in 1996 in a match against the West Indies, and his One-day International Debut in Brisbane, also against the West Indies. As well as Queensland's state team, he has played for the English Counties Essex, Hampshire and Worcestershire.

Unfortunately, his rise to prominence coincided with the appearance of a young Brett Lee, with whom he was often in a battle for a third fast-bowler spot in the lineup behind Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie holding the other two positions. As the younger and pacier Lee was often selected ahead of him, Bichel now holds the test match record of being Twelfth Man for Australia on 19 occasions. He has recently made comments that he believes his bowling suffered during these times, as he missed out on the valuable match practice that he could have earned either playing for Australia or Queensland.

2003 Cricket World Cup

A highlight of Bichel's career was Australia's 2003 World Cup campaign. He was initially back up to Jason Gillespie, Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath. He played his first game against Netherlands making a good impression with the ball and after injury had ended Gillespie's World Cup campaign he took over his position in the side. Bichel retrieved Australia from serious trouble on more than one occasion, most notably his 7-20 against England, then he went on with Michael Bevan to score an unbeaten 73-run 9th wicket partnership to ease Australia to victory which saw him hit 34 not out. In the Super Six stage, he came in against New Zealand at 84-7. He and Michael Bevan again saved Australia with his highest score of 64 as Australia put up a winning total batting first. In the semi-final against Sri Lanka, he bowled tightly conceding 0-18 in 10 overs but his pressure caused the spectacular run out of Aravinda de Silva as he picked up spun around and threw down the stumps to prevent a tight single off his own bowling. In the final against India, he picked up one wicket bowling Rahul Dravid as Australia won, completing an undefeated campaign.

Injury and retirement

At the start of the 2004–05 Australian summer, Bichel was not offered a contract by the Australian Cricket Board, an indication that the Board did not believe he would represent Australia in that season. His performances in the domestic competition, however, continued to be at the same high standards as before and it was clear that he wanted to make another return to the international scene. Bichel's performances at State level during the 2004–05 domestic season earned him the Domestic Player of the Year award at the 2005 Australian cricket awards. Bichel's absence from the international arena had earned him 'cult' status with some fans in Australia. Fans often come to games with banners calling for Bichel to be brought back into the Australian team, and a 'Bring Back Bichel' campaign has also occurred.

However, he announced his retirement on 9 February 2009, saying he never fully recovered from his shoulder injury.^[1]

Chennai Super Kings, the IPL Champions of 2010 season, have acquired Andy Bichel's services as a bowling coach for the team's youngsters for IPL 2011 season .

He is currently the coach of Papua New Guinea.

On 11 November 2011 it was announced that Andy Bichel would join the Cricket Australia selection panel.

In 2014 it was announced that Bichel had partnered Tangalooma Island Resort to be an official brand ambassador.^[2]

References

↑ "Smiling assassin Bichel calls it a day". ABC online. 9 February 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
↑ "Tangalooma appoints former Aussie cricketer, Andy Bichel as brand ambassador for India". Travelbizmonitor.com. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.

External links

Australia squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup (3rd title)

4 Gillespie 11 McGrath 12 Bevan 14 Ponting (c) 18 Gilchrist 25 Lehmann 28 Hayden 29 Harvey 30 Martyn 31 Hogg 34 Bichel 39 Symonds 43 Hauritz 46 Maher 58 Lee 59 Bracken Coach: Buchanan

Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne and Shane Watson were named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament

Queensland squad – 1994-95 Sheffield Shield Competition

1 Trevor Barsby 2 Andy Bichel 3 Allan Border 4 Gavin Fitness 5 Shawn Flegler 6 Matthew Hayden 7 Ian Healy 8 Paul Jackson 9 Michael Kasprowicz 10 Stuart Law 11 Martin Love 12 Craig McDermott 13 Jimmy Maher 14 Matthew Mott 15 Carl Rackemann 16 Greg Rowell 17 Wade Seccombe 18 Andy Symonds 19 Dirk Tazelaar Coach: John Buchanan

Australian first-class cricket season leading wicket-takers (1950–51 to 1999–2000)

1950–51: Bedser 1951–52: Johnston 1952–53: Tayfield 1953–54: Johnson 1954–55: Tyson 1955–56: Benaud 1956–57: Kline 1957–58: Quick 1958–59: Benaud 1959–60: Martin 1960–61: Davidson 1961–62: Benaud 1962–63: Meckiff 1963–64: Sellers 1964–65: Hawke 1965–66: Hawke 1966–67: Lock 1967–68: Connolly 1968–69: McKenzie 1969–70: A. Thomson 1970–71: A. Thomson 1971–72: Mallett 1972–73: Mallett 1973–74: Dymock 1974–75: Lillee/J. Thomson 1975–76: Lillee/J. Thomson 1976–77: Lillee 1977–78: J. Thomson 1978–79: Hogg 1979–80: Mallett 1980–81: Lillee 1981–82: Yardley 1982–83: Lawson 1983–84: Lillee 1984–85: Holland 1985–86: Holland 1986–87: McDermott 1987–88: Matthews 1988–89: Whitney 1989–90: Rackemann 1990–91: McDermott 1991–92: McDermott 1992–93: Holdsworth 1993–94: Warne 1994–95: Rackemann 1995–96: Kasprowicz 1996–97: Kasprowicz 1997–98: Miller 1998–99: Saker 1999–2000: Bichel

Leading run-scorers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards Leading wicket-takers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards

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