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About Ian Healy
Ian Healy's cricket test career covered 12 seasons from 1988/9 to 1999/2000 and during that time he missed just one Test match due to a broken thumb. After his shock selection and humbling beginning in Pakistan in 1988-89, he worked and willed himself to become the most successful wicketkeeper of them all.
He had played only five Shield games prior to this however held the position for the rest of his career. He prided himself on his total involvement, in training, in team meetings, in slashing and hooking vital runs regularly, in keeping expertly to the quicks, but his signature will always be his work standing over the stumps to Shane Warne, which elevated a prosaic business into a breathtaking spectacle.
His nasally "Bowling, Warnie", strained through pitch microphones, became a catch-cry. He holds the record for the most dismissals by a wicket keeper in Test history with his final tally of 395 made up of 366 catches and 29 stumpings. He is one of only six Australians to have played more than 100 Tests and his final tally of 119 matches is the highest by any keeper in international history.
His statistics at one day international level are also a record 234 dismissals from 168 matches. He beat Wally Grout, Don Tallon, Rod Marsh to the keeper's job in the Australian team of the 20th century.
After retiring, he seamlessly made the move from player to commentator.
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