Full Name : John Wayne Hastings
Date of Birth : 4th November 1985
Place of Birth : Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
Nick Name : The Duke
Batting Style : Right-handed
Bowling Style : Right-arm fast-medium
Role: All Rounder
ODI Debut (cap 184): 20th October 2010 v India
T20I Debut (cap 47): 31st October 2010 v Sri Lanka
John Wayne Hastings is a cricketer for the Victorian Bushrangers.
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A tall all-rounder who combines right-arm fast-medium bowling with strong lower-order batting. At the end of the 2006–07 season he was recruited from New South Wales, where he had represented the state in under-age and Second XI teams. Hastings impressed with the ball in his first one-day games for Victoria and grabbed three wickets in six deliveries on debut in 2007–08 when he was asked to bowl at the death against Queensland. John Hastings first-class debut, against the touring Indians, was ruined by rain and any chances of more action in the short-term ended in January when he had surgery to have a pin inserted in a fractured finger. Hastings was given three more first-class opportunities in 2008–09, taking 16 wickets at 18.56, including 5 for 61 against his home state.
In February 2010, Hastings won the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year.
After a series of injuries to several senior Australian pacemen, Hastings was called into the ODI team to tour India in October 2010. John Hastings made his ODI debut against India in Visakhapatnam in October 2010. John Hastings did not bat and took 2/44 from ten overs.
John Hastings removed centurion Virat Kohli and then bowled captain MS Dhoni for a duck later in the same over. On the 9th of January 2011 he was bought by the Kochi Tuskers Kerala for $20,000 US.
On the 18th January 2011, he was announced in Australia's 15 man squad for the 2011 ICC One-day World Cup.
Away from the game, Hastings is qualified as a physical education teacher.
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