Greg Blewett: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|10|2829|df=yes}}

| bowling = Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]]

| role = [[All-rounder]]

'''Gregory Scott Blewett''' (born 29 October 1971) is a retiredan [[Australian national cricket team|Australian international]] retired [[cricket]]er who played [[Test cricket]] and [[One-Day International]]s between 1995 and 2000.

The son of [[Bob Blewett (cricketer)|Bob Blewett]] who represented [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]] in the 1970s, Blewett was born in [[Adelaide]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/4162.html|title=Bob Blewett|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=4 June 2010}}</ref> Blewett was an AIS [[Australian Cricket Academy]] scholarship holder in 1990.<ref>{{cite book|title=Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport|year=2002|publisher=Australian Sports Commission|location=Canberra}}</ref> He began his domestic career in 1991–92 playing for South Australia in the [[Sheffield Shield]] and [[Ford Ranger One Day Cup|One Day domestic tournament]] competition in Australia. He made his international debut for the Australian team playing for [[Australia A cricket team|Australia A]] during a [[World Series Cup]] tournament against Australia in 1994–95. During this tournament he displayed his batting performances against former Australian fast bowler, [[Craig McDermott]]. In January 1995, he made his Test debut for Australia against [[English cricket team|England]] inat the [[Adelaide Oval]] in [[South Australia]]; scoring a [[century (cricket)|century]] on his debut match. He followed that with a century in the [[WACA Ground]] in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] during his second match and scored a century at [[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]] in [[England]] in 1997 thus scoring three centuries in his first three [[The Ashes|Ashes]] Test matches.