Michael Hubert Austen (born 17 May 1964)

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. Retrieved 1 August 2015 is a South African-born cricketer who played for Western Province in South African domestic cricket between the 1982/83 and 1988/89 seasons and for

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and

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between the 1989/90 and 1997/98 seasons.Michael Austen
CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2015. Austen worked as a doctor throughout his career in New Zealand. Austen was born at

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in South Africa in 1964. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys High School and worked professionally as a doctor.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 13. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He made his senior debut for Western Province B in a SAB Bowl match against

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in March 1983. He played mainly for Western Province B in the Bowl competition, before making four appearances for Western Province in the 1987/88

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. He played a single first-class match for a South African Universities side in 1987. He moved to New Zealand to play for Otago at the start of the 1989/90 season, moving to Wellington for four seasons before returning to Otago to finish his first-class career. In total he played in 66

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and 60

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matches, scoring almost 5,000 runs and taking 94 senior wickets.

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* 1964 births Living people South African cricketers Otago cricketers Wellington cricketers Western Province cricketers North Island cricketers {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1960s-stub