Ian Callen

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.

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.

He sold it in 1985 to concentrate on making a range of three bats, the MX, the K-IX and the Aussie Boomah.

[8] 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 conducts courses teaching the craft of making cricket bats by hand.