Michael Clark (sportsman)

Not to be confused with Michael Clarke (cricketer).

This article is about the cricketer and footballer. For the Melbourne Football Club player, see Michael Clark (footballer). For other people named Michael Clark, see Michael Clark (disambiguation).

Michael Clarke
Personal information
Full name	Michael Wayne Clarke
Date of birth	31 March 1978 (1978-03-31) (age 33)
Original team	Swan Districts, WAFL
Draft	Fremantle: Zone selection, 1995 Collingwood: 88th overall, 1999
Height/Weight	191 cm / 86 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1996–1999 2000	Fremantle Collingwood	1 (0) 0 (0)
1 Playing statistics to end of 2008 season .
Career highlights

Michael Clark

Personal information
Full name	Michael Wayne Clark
Born	31 March 1978 (1978-03-31) (age 33) Perth, Australia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Left-arm Medium-fast
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2002–2005/06	Western Warriors
2003	Warwickshire
List A debut	16 January 2002 Western Warriors v Victorian Bushrangers
Last List A	4 November 2005 Western Warriors v New South Wales Blues
First-class debut	18 January 2002 Western Warriors v Victorian Bushrangers
Last First-class	17 October 2004 Western Warriors v Tasmanian Tigers
Career statistics
Competition	List A	First-class
Matches	12	17
Runs scored	58	139
Batting average	29.00	10.69
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	27	26
Balls bowled	593	2904
Wickets	17	49
Bowling average	30.58	28.71
5 wickets in innings	0	1
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	3/34	5/47
Catches/stumpings	5/0	10/0
Source: [1], 5 October 2008

Michael Wayne Clark (born 31 March 1978) is an Australian cricketer and former Australian rules footballer.

Football career

Clark had shoulder problems when he played with Swan Districts in 1996, and in 1997 required a knee reconstruction.

The son of former Australian Test cricketer Wayne Clark, he pursued a career in the Australian Football League with the Fremantle Dockers. Drafted in the 1997 AFL Draft, he played only 1 game with the Dockers in 1999. He was delisted at the end of that year to be re-drafted by the Collingwood Football Club in the 1999 AFL Draft, but did not manage a senior game with the club, being delisted during the 2000 season after fracturing his fibula.^[1]

Cricket career

He made his debut with the Western Warriors in the 2000–2001 season, and after chronic back-injury problems, announced his retirement from cricket in February 2006.^[2]

External links

• Michael Clark (sportsman)'s statistics from AFL Tables
• Player profile: Michael Clark (sportsman) from ESPNcricinfo

References

1. ^ Lovett, Michael, ed (2001). AFL 2001 The Official Statistical History of the AFL. Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Football League. p. 78. ISBN 0-9585286-7-5. 
2. ^ Michael Clark forced to retire; Cricinfo; 17 February 2006

Persondata
Name	Clarke, Michael Wayne
Alternative names
Short description	Cricketer, AFL footballer
Date of birth	31 March 1978
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death