Michael Austen
Michael Hubert Austen (born 17 May 1964) 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 Otago and Wellington between the 1989/90 and 1997/98 seasons. Austen worked as a doctor throughout his career in New Zealand. Austen was born at Cape Town in South Africa in 1964. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys High School and worked professionally as a doctor. He made his senior debut for Western Province B in a SAB Bowl match against Border 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 Currie Cup. 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 first-class cricket and 60 List A cricket matches, scoring almost 5,000 runs and taking 94 senior wickets. References

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1964 births
Living people
South African cricketers
Otago cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Western Province cricketers
North Island cricketers