Michael Haysman

Mike Haysman

Personal information
Full name	Michael Donald Haysman
Born	(1961-04-22) 22 April 1961 North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm Off Break
Role	Commentator
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1982/83	South Australia
1983/84	Leicestershire
1985/86	Australian XI
1987/88	South Australia
1988/89	Northern Transvaal
First-class debut	1982 South Australia v Victoria
Career statistics
Competition FC LA Matches 103 81 Runs scored 5977 1947 Batting average 36.89 29.95 100s/50s 13/24 2/13 Top score 180 103* Balls bowled 1244 233 Wickets 5 5 Bowling average 135.20 35.00 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a Best bowling 2/19 1/7 Catches/stumpings 140/– 36/–
Source: Cricinfo, 6 November 2009

Mike Haysman (born 22 April 1961) is a 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.

Career

Michael Donald Haysman was born in Adelaide, 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

Haysman worked for SuperSport for over ten 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 Miami for nearly three years working with Allen Stanford's Caribbean Twenty 20 as commentator and analyst but moved to Los Angeles after Stanford's demise. Haysman now resides in Los Angeles and travels when and where his services are required to host and commentate. Nowadays he is working primarily for SuperSport, ESPN International and Ten Sports.

See also

• List of cricket commentators

External links

• Mike Haysman on CricInfo
• Haysman bounces back after Stanford fiasco from The Times