5 Australian players who had a great First Class career but failed to shine in Test cricket

#2 Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan

One of the greatest finishers in the modern game Bevan played just 18 Test matches for Australia.

He made his Test debut against Pakistan in September 1994 and went on to get just 784 runs from 30 innings. He scored 6 fifties during the time and had the highest score of 91. The flamboyant left-hander averaged just 29.07 with the willow and before long he found himself out of the star-studded Test team.

In ODIs Bevan was a completely different player and scored 6912 runs from 232 matches. His average was a phenomenal 53.58 with six hundreds and 45 fifties.

The batter who represented New South Wales and Tasmania in domestic cricket was a legend in the First Class format. He scored a whopping 19,147 runs with an average of 57.32. He had 68 hundreds and 89 fifties to his credit. Alongside his runs he also picked up 119 wickets with his chinaman.