For the Second Test at Port Elizabeth, played on a green pitch, Australia played Michael Bevan as a second spinner batting at number seven to reinforce the batting, instead of a third seamer to exploit the conditions.

The three played together at jam sessions at Birmingham's Cedar Club, and invited Wayne and Bevan to join their new group.

Two monuments to Australian winger and world record try scorer Brian Bevan, who played for Warrington RLFC 1948 – 62 ( scoring 740 tries for the Wire ), are featured at the stadium.

Among the prominent rock drummers who endorsed Slingerland, Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds, Barry Whitwam with Herman's Hermits, Mike Smith, ( who all had previously played Ludwig's ) and later Joe Correro, Jr. with Paul Revere & the Raiders, Dick Dodd of The Standells, Antonio " Fito " de la Parra with Canned Heat, Bev Bevan of Electric Light Orchestra, Bobby Columby of Blood Sweat and Tears, Danny Seraphine of Chicago, Joey Stefko of Meat Loaf, Phil Ehart of Kansas, Alice Cooper's original drummer, Neal Smith, and Elton John's drummer, Nigel Olsson.

Successful Birmingham singer / songwriters and musicians include: Joan Armatrading, Steve Gibbons, Mike Kellie ( of Spooky Tooth ), Blaze Bayley ( former vocalist of Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden ), Keith Law ( of Velvett Fogg & Jardine ) Jeff Lynne, Phil Lynott, Carl Palmer ( of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ), Roy Wood, Jamelia, Kelli Dayton of The Sneaker Pimps, Juice Aleem ( from Big Dada Records ), Martin Barre ( guitarist with Jethro Tull ), Nick Mason ( of Pink Floyd ), Bev Bevan, Ali Campbell, Steve Cradock ( guitarist for Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller ), Stephen " Tin Tin " Duffy, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Denny Laine, Fritz Mcintyre ( keyboardist of Simply Red ), Christine Perfect ( of Fleetwood Mac ), Robert Plant ( born in West Brom and played in Brumbeat bands ), Nick Rhodes, Ranking Roger, John Henry Rostill ( bass guitarist / composer for The Shadows ), Matt Skinner, Dave Swarbrick ( of Fairport Convention ), John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Ruby Turner, Ted Turner ( guitar / vocals, Wishbone Ash ), Peter Overend Watts, Steve Winwood and Dave Mason.

A former pupil of Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan, Tandy would later be reunited with Bevan in 1968 when he played the harpsichord on The Move's number one chart-topper " Blackberry Way ".

Bevan ( Bev ) Ernest Congdon OBE ( born 11 February 1938 ) is a former New Zealand all-rounder who played 61 Test matches from 1965 to 1978.

Bevan also served as the touring drummer for Black Sabbath from 1983-1984, and played percussion on The Eternal Idol album in 1987.

All Blacks Bunny Finlayson, Bevan Holmes and Ian Jones played for Kamo Rugby Club as did Auckland Blues player Justin Collins and Auckland Blues coach Peter Sloane.

B. Priestley on " Britain and the Nuclear Bombs ", which was critical of Aneurin Bevan for changing his mind about nuclear weapons and ceasing to advocate unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Lynne, Bevan and Tandy returned to the studio in 1985 as a three-piece ( with Christian Schneider playing saxophone on some tracks ) to record ELO's final album of the 20th century, Balance of Power, released early in 1986.

The Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 was a charity concert organised by Bevan in ELO's hometown of Birmingham on 15 March 1986.

Bevan approached Lynne to make another ELO album in 1988, but Lynne was not interested and went on to announce that ELO was no more.

Bevan ( under an agreement with Lynne who co-owned the ELO name with him ) continued on in 1989 as ELO Part II, initially with no other former ELO members except Clark.

Bev Bevan usually displayed the logo on his drum set.

Among the books he authored are Guilty Men ( an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement ), a biography of Jonathan Swift ( The Pen and the Sword, 1957 ) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.

On the recommendation of Aneurin Bevan, Foot was soon hired by Lord Beaverbrook to work as a writer on his Evening Standard.

( Bevan is supposed to have told Beaverbrook on the phone: " I've got a young bloody knight-errant here.

In 1993, Bevan Morris campaigned for a seat in a district in suburban Adelaide for the Australian House of Representatives on the NLP ticket.

There is an Oberon-2 Lex scanner and Yacc parser by Stephen J Bevan of Manchester University, UK, based on the one in the Mössenböck and Wirth reference.

Bevan was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, in the South Wales Valleys and on the northern edge of the South Wales coalfield, the son of miner David Bevan and Phoebe née Prothero, a seamstress.

When the strike started on 3 May 1926, Bevan soon emerged as one of the leaders of the South Wales miners.

In 1928, Bevan won a seat on Monmouthshire County Council.

Bevan opposed the heavy censorship imposed on radio and newspapers and wartime Defence Regulation 18B, which gave the Home Secretary the powers to intern citizens without trial.

After 18 months of ongoing dispute between the Ministry of Health and the BMA, Bevan finally managed to win over the support of the vast majority of the medical profession by offering a couple of minor concessions, but without compromising on the fundamental principles of his NHS proposals.

Macmillan was able to concentrate full-time on Housing, instead of being obliged, like Bevan, to combine his housing portfolio with that for Health ( which for Bevan took the higher priority ).

Wales ' first all individual bed hospital Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan opened in 2010 and is named after the NHS ' founder: Aneurin Bevan.

Lehmann was handed a seven-match ban for racial abuse, the world's number 1 ranked ODI batsman Michael Bevan was injured, as was all rounder Shane Watson, who had to withdraw from the World Cup.

Social democratic Reformist Marxist Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the first post-war Labour government, who introduced the UK National Health Service ( NHS ), also takes the view that welfare programmes, such as health care which is free at the point of use for all, are concessions forced on capitalism by the struggles of the working class and a " pure Socialism " embryo of the new socialist society gestating within capitalist society ( see section ' Post-war European countries ' above ).

Wisden ranked him the sixth greatest one day international batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan.

They should not be confused with another 1960s group of the same name, a British group formed in the Birmingham area who included vocalist Carl Wayne, bassist Ace Kefford and drummer Bev Bevan, all of whom later joined The Move.

) At one time, Attlee had favoured Aneurin Bevan to succeed him as leader, but this became problematic after Bevan split the party.

Bevan was one of the founding members of the " Query Club " with his brother Billy and Walter Conway.

After Auchinleck's defeat by Rommel and his disastrous retreat across Cyrenaica in 1942, Bevan made one of his most memorable speeches in the Commons in support of a motion of censure against the Churchill government.

Bevan begins: " A young miner in a South Wales colliery, my concern was with the one practical question: Where does power lie in this particular state of Great Britain, and how can it be attained by the workers?

This statement is often misconstrued: Bevan argued that unilateralism would result in Britain's loss of allies, and one interpretation of his metaphor is that nakedness would come from the lack of allies, not the lack of weapons.

This new, more pop-oriented musical direction was the last straw for the increasingly disenchanted Burton, who wanted to work in a more hard rock / blues oriented style, and he left the group after an altercation on stage one evening with Bevan.

From this period came their third album Looking On ( 1970 ), with four songs composed by Wood, two by Lynne and one by Bevan.

In 1988, they released their one and only album, Safety Zone ( featuring Robert Bevan on lead vocals ).

The invasion of Russia by the Allies, their trade embargo and backing for the White forces fighting against the Red Army in the civil war in the Soviet Union was cited by Aneurin Bevan, the leader of the left-wing in the Labour Party, as one of the causes of the Russian revolution's degeneration into dictatorship.

Bevan was a member of the Independent Labour Party and one of the leaders of the South Wales miners during the strike.

He spoke with a strong West Country accent, so much so that on one occasion listeners at Cabinet had difficulty in deciding whether he was talking about " Hugh and Nye ( Gaitskell and Bevan )" or " you and I ".

In 1975 he was dropped for Aberavon RFC's John Bevan and made just the one appearance for Wales as a substitute for the injured Bevan in the Murrayfield Test.

Bichel retrieved Australia from serious trouble on more than one occasion, most notably his 7-20 against England, then he went on with Michael Bevan to score an unbeaten 73-run 9th wicket partnership to ease Australia to victory which saw him hit 34 not out.

Situated off Lombard Street in the heart of the City of London, and founded by the Quaker scientist Silvanus Bevan, it eventually grew into one of the UK's largest pharmaceutical companies: Allen & Hanburys.

Beverly " Bev " Bevan ( born 24 November 1945 ) is an English rock musician, who was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ).