{"id":954480,"date":"2026-11-06T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954480\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:44:09","slug":"australia-appoint-mike-hussey-as-consultant-for-ashes-and-cricket-world-cup-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954480\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia appoint Mike Hussey as consultant for Ashes and Cricket World Cup | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hussey, known as \u2018Mr Cricket\u2019 for his technical expertise, will also work with Australia during the LA 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n

Published On 6 Nov 20266 Nov 2026<\/p>\n

Mike Hussey was appointed on Friday as a consultant coach to the Australian team for next year\u2019s blockbuster Ashes series<\/a> against England and the 2027 Cricket World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former Australian batsman revealed in August that England\u2019s new red-ball coach, Stephen Fleming, had informally approached<\/a> him to be their Test batting mentor.<\/p>\n

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But the 51-year-old turned down the audacious offer and has instead committed to helping his home nation arrest a batting crisis, highlighted by their recent 2-1 Test series defeat<\/a> in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Hussey, known as \u201cMr Cricket\u201d for his technical expertise, will also provide coaching assistance during this month\u2019s home T20 series against England and the subsequent four-Test series against New Zealand.<\/p>\n

He will additionally work with Australia during the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics<\/a>, where cricket is on the agenda, and the T20 World Cup in 2028.<\/p>\n

\"AustralianAustralia\u2019s former batsman Mike Hussey played 302 matches for the national team across all formats [File: William West\/AFP]<\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely excited about being a part of the team in a more formal and meaningful role in the coming years,\u201d said Hussey, who played more than 300 matches for Australia across all formats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team has achieved so much in recent times, to which I hope I can add value to the coaching and playing groups ahead of what will be an exciting and challenging period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hussey has extensive experience as a coach, including with both Australia and England.<\/p>\n

He was part of England\u2019s coaching setup when they won the T20 World Cup in 2022 and was the Chennai Super Kings\u2019 longtime batting coach under Fleming in the Indian Premier League. He also led Welsh Fire in this year\u2019s Hundred.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike has been a highly valued part of our staff in the past and brings a considerable skill set which is complementary to the coaches and players,\u201d said Australian head coach Andrew McDonald.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is his expertise as a player and coach across multiple formats, competitions, countries invaluable, so are his qualities as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hussey, known as \u2018Mr Cricket\u2019 for his technical expertise, will also work with Australia during the LA 2028…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[77,64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-954480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}