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Kimberley John Hughes (born 26 January 1954) is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Test matches between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a rebel Australian team in a tour of South Africa, a country which at the time was subject to a sporting boycott opposing apartheid.
Kim Hughes was a top order batter and captain for Australia, who made a century on debut and led the team to victory in his 11th Test. He also played for Western Australia and Natal, and led the rebel teams to South Africa in 1984.
Jul 16, 2022 · Kim is former Australia cricket captain and beloved personality Kim Hughes, who was in the throes of a spiralling alcohol addiction. It was a tragic fall for one of Western Australia's favourite sons.
Dec 6, 2021 · With the home side facing odds of 500-1 to win at Headingley in 1981, two stoic Englishmen stood in the way of Kim Hughes leading his Australians to a famous victory — and it's a string of ...
Jan 26, 2015 · Kim Hughes: 23 facts about Australian cricket’s Golden Boy. Kim Hughes had started off on a high. Thanks to Kerry Packer’s intervention, captaincy was thrust upon him in only his 11th Test, but...
Kim Hughes played 70 Tests and 97 ODIs for Australia, scoring 4415 and 1968 runs respectively. He was the first WA player to lead Australia in Tests, but also faced criticism for his captaincy and rebel tour to South Africa.
That of scoring the first in the second century of these games went to Graeme Wood with a fine 112, but it was Wood's Western Australian team-mate, KIMBERLEY JOHN HUGHES, to whom the Centenary...
