John Wayne Hastings is a former cricketer from Victoria, Australia, who played for the national squad and was born on November 4, 1985. He was useful in every position. He said goodbye to Test and One-Day International cricket in October 2017. He announced his retirement from cricket later that month due to a lung issue. Hastings was signed by the club after the 2006–07 season after having played for the state of New South Wales in both underage and second-XI teams.
On his debut in 2007–08, when bowled at the death against Queensland, he took three wickets in six deliveries, building on his impressive performance in his first one-day games for Victoria. The inclement weather disrupted his first-class debut match with the visiting Indian national side. He needed surgery to place a pin into a broken finger the following January. Despite only getting three more first-class chances in 2008–09, Hastings took 16 wickets for 18.56 runs, including 5 for 61 against his native state.
The Kochi Tuskers Kerala paid US$20,000 for him on January 9, 2011, and the Chennai Super Kings paid US$40,000 for him in 2014. The Twenty20 squad the Melbourne Stars presently have him on their roster. with the 2016 English season, he has a contract to play with Durham, a county team. His longest six earned him first place in the Big Bash Smash. Chennai Super Kings paid 50 lakhs (around 5 million Indian rupees) to acquire him at the 2014 Indian Premier League player auction.
John Hastings Biography
| Name | John Hastings |
| Full Name | John Wayne Hastings |
| Date of Birth | November 4, 1985 |
| Place of Birth | Penrith, New South Wales, Australia |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Father’s Name | Sir Henry de Hastings |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | Briannan Hastings |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting Allrounder |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium |
| ODI Debut | October 20, 2010 vs. Australia |
| Test Debut | November 30, 2012 vs. Australia |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | October 2017 |
Together with Calum McLeod, he achieved the greatest sixth-wicket partnership in Twenty20 history in 2014 with 126*. Hastings was named to the One-Day International squad for the 2010 Indian summer tour after a string of injuries to key Australian pacemen. In October 2010, he debuted in one-day internationals in Visakhapatnam against India. He took 2/44 from 10 overs without batting. He first bowled out Virat Kohli, the skipper, for a duck, and then removed the centurion.
He was included in Australia’s 15-man Cricket World Cup team on January 18, 2011. As the 430th Test cricketer for Australia, Hastings debuted at the WACA on November 30, 2012, against South Africa. Hastings was once again invited into the One-Day International squad in 2015, this time for India’s January 2016 tour of Australia, after a string of injuries to many top Australian pacemen.
Unfortunately, he has a health problem that might ruin his career in 2018—specifically, he only coughs up blood while bowling. He opted out of playing cricket in 2018 due to this. John Hastings, an all-rounder from Australia and a former captain of the Melbourne Stars of the Big Bash League, has chosen to delay his career because of grave health issues. Hastings, who joined the Sydney Sixers in May, has come clean about his history of bloody coughing and has decided to sit out games until doctors figure out what’s wrong with him.
Hastings has played in 29 one-day internationals for Australia, but his lone Test appearance was in 2012 in Perth against South Africa. He last played for Australia in June 2017 against New Zealand, and he was a costly bowler, conceding 69 runs in nine overs. In the Indian Premier League, he was a household name while representing the Kochi Tuskers, the Chennai Super Kings (coached by MS Dhoni), and the Kolkata Knight Riders.
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He has also been an integral component of the Quetta Gladiators’ setup in the Pakistan Super League. In March of this year, he made his Twenty20 debut for the Gladiators in a match against the Multan Sultans. After enduring a string of ailments over the last year, Australian all-rounder John Hastings has decided to retire from one-day internationals and domestic cricket. Nonetheless, the 31-year-old will keep playing for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League, where he has been named captain.
As an accomplished Twenty20 bowler and lower-order batsman, Hastings played in 29 one-day matches for Australia, scoring 271 runs and taking 42 wickets. Against India in Visakhapatnam, he bowled 10 overs and claimed two wickets on his one-day international debut. Not only that but he was named to the Champions Trophy team this season. Additionally, Hastings became the second-highest one-day international wicket-taker in 2016. In 2012, he made his Test debut at the WACA against South Africa, and he has participated in nine Twenty20 matches for Australia.
