CricInfo Interactive Player of the Month

March 1997: Steve Waugh

Highlights of Steve Waugh's month:

160 in the First Test v S.Africa at Johannesburg, including a 385 partnership for the 5th wicket with Greg Blewett

67 and 60 not out on a losing Third Test side at Centurion

107 unbeaten partnership with brother Mark in the second ODI at Port Elizabeth.


Forum question (April 3-7):
What are the greatest moments in Steve Waugh's career?

Previous forum question (April 1-2):
Steve Waugh: ready for the Australian captaincy?


Related feature on the googler's:

Bankstown boy's new record - courtesy Michael Jackson

CricInfo profile: Steve Waugh

The good, the bad and the ugly of March.

Previous Players of the Month

In a month where three double centuries were scored in Test cricket, our winner did not score any, but was partner to one. His major achievement of the month was to play senior partner to Greg Blewett in a partnership in the Johannesburg Test, that began on the afternoon of March 1 and ended on the morning of March 3, all of 385 runs later. He led the unsuccessful Australian fightback in each innings of the Centurion Park Test, and ended the month in a big match-winning one-day partnership with twin brother Mark. Not that unusual a month really.

And it is the fact that this was so typical a month for Steve Waugh is reason enough to warrant his recognition. Acknowledged for nearly two years by Coopers and Lybrand as the best Test batsman, a central figure in many of Australia's mightiest Test victories in recent years. A consistency and determination that no other contemporary "great" batsman is able to reproduce. And the murmurs are starting to grow for his call-up to the Australian captaincy - just in case the job falls vacant...

The googler's Player of the Month for March 1997 is Australia's Stephen Rodger Waugh.


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