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==Cricket career==
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.
 
He also represented the national team in One Day International matches. During his peak, he batted with aggression and he was effective against both fast bowlers and spinners. He was particularly strong square of the wicket, which was rewarded on his home ground, the [[Adelaide Oval]], where the square boundaries are shorter. He was also an effective medium pacebowler (average bowling speed 125&nbsp;km/h). His highest Test match score was 214 runs, against [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] in [[Johannesburg]] in [[South Africa]]. Most of those runs were achieved with his former teammate and captain, [[Steve Waugh]], with whom he was involved in one of the highest batting partnerships in cricket when the pair scored 385 runs together, batting for an entire day's play without losing a wicket.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-waugh-and-blewett-in-record-allday-stand-1270784.html|title=Waugh and Blewett in record all-day stand|work=The Independent|access-date=4 June 2010 | location=London | date=3 March 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283573.html|title=Test Cricket Partnership Records|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=12 April 2013}}</ref>