Michael Haysman
Encyclopedia
Mike Haysman is a popular South African cricket commentator of Australian origin. Prior to his broadcasting career, he is perhaps best known as a participant in the South African rebel tours
.
, South Australia
.
As a first class cricketer, he represented Leicestershire
, Northern Transvaal, South Australia
and Transvaal domestic sides.
From 1985 to 1987, Haysman represented the Australian XI in the South African rebel tours
, a tour that prompted Australian prime minister Bob Hawke
to call the group "traitors" and that in retrospect has been called "one of the most painful and traumatic moments in Australian cricket history."
Haysman worked for Supersport for over five years, hosting cricket show Extra Cover
and making regular appearances on Super Saturday. On 28 October 2006 he recorded his last Supersport appearance. He lived in Florida
for nearly two years working with Allen Stanford
's Caribbean Twenty 20 as commentator and analyst but moved to Dubai after Stanford's implications in fraud charges. Nowadays he is working for Ten Sports
.
South African rebel tours
The South African rebel tours were a series of seven cricket tours staged between 1982 and 1990. They were known as the rebel tours because South Africa was throughout this period banned from international cricket due to the apartheid regime...
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Career
Michael Donald Haysman was born in AdelaideAdelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
, South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
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As a first class cricketer, he represented Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
, Northern Transvaal, South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
and Transvaal domestic sides.
From 1985 to 1987, Haysman represented the Australian XI in the South African rebel tours
South African rebel tours
The South African rebel tours were a series of seven cricket tours staged between 1982 and 1990. They were known as the rebel tours because South Africa was throughout this period banned from international cricket due to the apartheid regime...
, a tour that prompted Australian prime minister Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
to call the group "traitors" and that in retrospect has been called "one of the most painful and traumatic moments in Australian cricket history."
Haysman worked for Supersport for over five years, hosting cricket show Extra Cover
Extra Cover
Extra Cover is a cricket show hosted by Mike Haysman on Supersport....
and making regular appearances on Super Saturday. On 28 October 2006 he recorded his last Supersport appearance. He lived in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
for nearly two years working with Allen Stanford
Allen Stanford
Robert Allen Stanford is a former prominent financier and sponsor of professional sports who is in prison awaiting trial on charges his investment company was a massive Ponzi scheme and fraud. Stanford was the chairman of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group of Companies. A fifth-generation...
's Caribbean Twenty 20 as commentator and analyst but moved to Dubai after Stanford's implications in fraud charges. Nowadays he is working for Ten Sports
TEN Sports
TEN SPORTS is a sports channel, widely broadcast in Asia. Its key programming includes Cricket, Football and sports-entertainment shows viz. WWE. Ten Sports was launched on April 1, 2002, and became the world's premier sports channel for South Asians, reaching over 55 million homes across the Arab...
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External links
- Mike Haysman on CricInfo
- Haysman bounces back after Stanford fiasco from The TimesThe Times (South Africa)The Times is a popular South African daily newspaper and an offshoot of The Sunday Times, to whose subscribers it is delivered gratis; non-subscribers pay R3.50 per edition....