Ian Callen
{{short description|Australian cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ian Callen
| fullname = Ian Wayne Callen
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|5|2}}
| birth_place = Alexandra, Victoria, Australia
| death_date =
| death_place =
| image =
| country = Australia
| international = true
| testdebutdate = 28 January
| testdebutyear = 1978
| testdebutagainst = India
| testcap = 291
| onetest = true
| odidebutdate = 22 February
| odidebutyear = 1978
| odidebutagainst = West Indies
| odicap = 39
| lastodidate = 22 October
| lastodiyear = 1982
| lastodiagainst = Pakistan
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
| heightcm = 187
| club1 = Victoria
| year1 = {{nowrap|1976/77–1984/85}}
| club2 = Northumberland
| year2 = 1977
| club3 = Boland
| year3 = 1985/86
| columns = 4
| column1 = Test
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 26
| bat avg1 = –
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 22*
| deliveries1 = 440
| wickets1 = 6
| bowl avg1 = 31.83
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 3/83
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| column2 = ODI
| matches2 = 5
| runs2 = 6
| bat avg2 = 6.00
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 3*
| deliveries2 = 180
| wickets2 = 5
| bowl avg2 = 29.60
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 3/24
| catches/stumpings2 = 2/–
| column3 = FC
| matches3 = 53
| runs3 = 578
| bat avg3 = 12.29
| 100s/50s3 = 0/0
| top score3 = 34
| deliveries3 = 10,727
| wickets3 = 197
| bowl avg3 = 27.47
| fivefor3 = 7
| tenfor3 = 1
| best bowling3 = 8/42
| catches/stumpings3 = 19/–
| column4 = LA
| matches4 = 20
| runs4 = 69
| bat avg4 = 11.50
| 100s/50s4 = 0/0
| top score4 = 15
| deliveries4 = 1,056
| wickets4 = 31
| bowl avg4 = 22.87
| fivefor4 = 0
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 4/47
| catches/stumpings4 = 6/–
| date = 12 December 2005
| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/4517.html Cricinfo
}}
Ian Wayne Callen (born 2 May 1955) is a former Australian cricketer who played in one Test match and five One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1982. He later ran a business making cricket bats from English willow he grew in Victoria and was the cricket writer for Sportshounds.
Cricket career
Callen made his first-class debut for Victoria in 1976–77. In his fourth Sheffield Shield match he took 4 for 55 and 5 for 15 in an innings victory for Victoria over South Australia, and in the next match he took 1 for 82 and 8 for 42 in a 10-wicket victory over Queensland.Wisden 1978, pp. 990–94.
His only Test came against India in Adelaide in 1978. Despite being badly affected by the injections he had received just before the match in preparation for the tour to the West Indies that was to follow, he took three wickets in each innings, helping bowl Australia to a series-winning victory. On the night before the last day's play, he collapsed in the team hotel and was placed on an intravenous drip, but recovered to take an important part in Australia's victory on the last day.Barry Nicholls, The Establishment Boys, New Holland, Sydney, 2015, pp. 86–87.
On the tour of the West Indies, he played in the first ODI, taking 1-42,{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-west-indies-1977-78-61386/west-indies-vs-australia-1st-odi-64163/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of West Indies vs Australia 1st ODI 1977/78 - Score Report |website=ESPNcricinfo.com|access-date=17 November 2021}} and the second, taking 3-24.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-west-indies-1977-78-61386/west-indies-vs-australia-2nd-odi-64164/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of West Indies vs Australia 2nd ODI 1977/78 - Score Report |website=ESPNcricinfo.com|access-date=17 November 2021}} During the tour he fractured a vertebra in his lower back. In 1982 he returned to international cricket in Pakistan with the Australian side. He played in three ODIs, taking 1-32,{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-pakistan-1982-83-61392/pakistan-vs-australia-1st-odi-64193/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of Pakistan vs Australia 1st ODI 1982/83 - Score Report|website=ESPNcricinfo.com|access-date=17 November 2021}} 0-50{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-pakistan-1982-83-61392/pakistan-vs-australia-2nd-odi-64195/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of Pakistan vs Australia 2nd ODI 1982/83 - Score Report|website=ESPNcricinfo.com|access-date=17 November 2021}} and not bowling in the third.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-pakistan-1982-83-61392/pakistan-vs-australia-3rd-odi-64196/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of Pakistan vs Australia 3rd ODI 1982/83 - Score Report |website=ESPNcricinfo.com|access-date=17 November 2021}} He never fully recovered from the lower back injury.
Later career
Callen established Ian Callen Sports in 1981. He sold it in 1985 to concentrate on making a range of three bats, the MX, the K-IX and the Aussie Boomah.{{cite web|url=http://www.callencricket.com.au/about|title=About|website=Callen Cricket|access-date=5 December 2015|archive-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016173626/https://www.callencricket.com.au/about|url-status=dead}} His company in the Yarra Valley, Callen Cricket, has re-established the growing of cricket-bat willow from stock sent to Australia by English Test captain A. C. MacLaren in 1902. He harvests and processes the timber from his plantations at Healesville and Sale. The timber is used for the manufacture of cricket bats and picture frame mouldings.
He conducts courses teaching the craft of making cricket bats by hand. At first he used willow imported from England, but now he uses his own.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/cricket-willow/5837940|title=Former Australian cricketer wants to develop a home-grown cricket bat industry|website=Radio National Bush Telegraph|date=24 October 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=4517}}
- [http://www.callencricket.com.au/ Callen Cricket website]
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