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He subsequently completed his university education at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in business management, before moving to England to pursue his cricket career.
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A right-handed opening batsman and a very occasional off spin bowler, he is the only known Jewish Australian to represent his country at cricket. A tall man, he was known for batting bare-headed showing his blonde hair. The surname Wiener came from Vienna, the home of Sasha.
Wiener"s father ran a successful textile business, which allowed him to send Wiener to the private Brighton Grammar School.
Wiener"s father had early sporting success in table tennis, which Wiener applied to his cricket, playing for Prahran in Melbourne grade cricket. He made a century on his first class debut for Victoria against Queensland in 1977-1978, scoring 106.
Two strong seasons, including three further centuries, saw Wiener selected to make is ODI debut as an opening batsman in December 1979 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against England and the West Indies. He struggled, scoring 7 and 27 respectively.
Despite this he was selected to make his Test cricket debut against England at the WACA a few days later.
He played in four tests that summer (two each against England and the West Indies) before being omitted for the rest of the series. Wiener played in five further ODIs in the Australian season, with his best performances being a 33 and 50 against the West Indies in Sydney in the final two group matches. Averaging only twenty, he was dropped from the ODI team for the finals and ended his ODI career with a slow strike rate of only 42.
He was named to tour Pakistan in early 1980, and was recalled to the Test XI for the second Test in Faisalabad.
He made his highest score of 93 in the Third Test in Lahore, and was not selected again in the national team following his return to Australia. He had scored 281 runs at an average of 25.5 in his career
This still stands as a record for the third wicket for Australians in first-class cricket.
Wiener scored an unbeaten 221 in that innings, one of three centuries he produced in the season. Wiener played at the first-class level until retiring at the 1984/85 season, having scored seven centuries in 66 matches.
He had also claimed 17 wickets with his off spin, although none of these came at national level
Wiener is currently the National Sales Manager of.
