Australia national cricket team

Australia
Insignia on the baggy green
Test status acquired 1877
First Test match v  England at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, 15–19 March 1877 (scorecard)
Captain Steve Smith
Coach Darren Lehmann
Current ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking 2nd (Test)
1st (ODI)
8th (T20I)[1]
All-time best ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking 1st (Test)
1st (ODI)
1st (T20I)
Test matches
– This year		 786[2]
1[3]
Last Test match v  West Indies at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, 3–7 January 2016 (scorecard)
Wins/losses
– This year		 370/208 (206 draws, 2 ties)[2]
0/0 (1 draw)[3]
As of 10 January 2016

The Australia national cricket team represents the country of Australia in international cricket. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.[4] The team also plays One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season[5] and the first Twenty20 International, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,[6] winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League.

The national team has played 786 Test matches, winning 370, losing 208, drawing 206 and tying 2.[2] Australia is ranked the number-one team overall in Test cricket in terms of overall wins, win-loss ratio and wins percentage. As of 12 December 2015, Australia is ranked third in the ICC Test Championship on 109 rating points, only behind South Africa & India.[7]

Australia has played 862 ODI matches, winning 533, losing 289, tying 9 and with 31 ending in no-result.[8] They have led the ICC ODI Championship since its inception for all but a period of 48 days in 2007. Australia have made a record seven World Cup final appearances (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) and have won the World Cup a record five times in total; 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. Australia is the first team to appear in four consecutive World Cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007), surpassing the old record of three consecutive World Cup appearances by West Indies (1975, 1979 and 1983) and the first team to win 3 consecutive world cups (1999, 2003 and 2007). It is also the second team to win a World Cup (2015) on home soil, after India (2011).

The team was undefeated in 34 consecutive World Cup matches until 19 March at the 2011 Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets.[9] Australia have also won the ICC Champions Trophy twice – in 2006 and in 2009 – making them the first and the only team to become back to back winners in the Champions Trophy tournaments. The team has also played 78 Twenty20 Internationals, winning 40, losing 35, tying 2 and with 1 ending in no-result[10] making the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, which they eventually lost to England.

As of 12 December 2015, the Australian cricket team is ranked third in Tests, first in ODIs and third in T20Is by the ICC.[1]

History

Early history

The Australian team that toured England in 1878.

The Australian cricket team participated in the first Test match at the MCG in 1877, defeating an English team by 45 runs, with Charles Bannerman making the first Test century, a score of 165 retired hurt. Test cricket, which only occurred between Australia and England at the time, was limited by the long distance between the two countries, which would take several months by sea. Despite Australia's much smaller population, the team was very competitive in early games, producing stars such as Jack Blackham, Billy Murdoch, Fred "The Demon" Spofforth, George Bonnor, Percy McDonnell, George Giffen and Charles "The Terror" Turner. Most cricketers at the time were either from New South Wales or Victoria, with the notable exception of George Giffen, the star South Australian all-rounder.

A highlight of Australia's early history was the 1882 Test match against England at The Oval. In this match Fred Spofforth took 7/44 in the game's fourth innings to save the match by preventing England from making their 85-run target. After this match The Sporting Times, a major newspaper in London at the time, printed a mock obituary in which the death of English cricket was proclaimed and the announcement made that "the body was cremated and the ashes taken to Australia." This was the start of the famous Ashes series in which Australia and England play a Test match series to decide the holder of the Ashes. To this day, the contest is one of the fiercest rivalries in sport.

Golden Age

The so-called 'Golden Age' of Australian test cricket occurred around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the team under the captaincy of Joe Darling, Monty Noble and Clem Hill winning eight of ten tours. It participated in between the 1897–98 English tour of Australia and the 1910–11 South African tour of Australia. Outstanding batsman such as Joe Darling, Clem Hill, Reggie Duff, Syd Gregory, Warren Bardsley and Victor Trumper, brilliant all-rounders including Monty Noble, George Giffen, Harry Trott and Warwick Armstrong and excellent bowlers including Ernie Jones, Hugh Trumble, Tibby Cotter, Bill Howell, Jack Saunders and Bill Whitty, all helped Australia to become the dominant cricketing nation for most of this period.

Victor Trumper became one of Australia's first sporting heroes, and was widely considered Australia's greatest batsman before Bradman and one of the most popular players. He played a record (at the time) number of tests at 49 and scored 3163 (another record) runs at a high for the time average of 39.04. His early death in 1915 at the age of 37 from kidney disease caused national mourning. The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, in its obituary for him, called him Australia's greatest batsman: "Of all the great Australian batsmen Victor Trumper was by general consent the best and most brilliant."[11]

The years leading up to the start of World War I were marred by conflict between the players, led by Clem Hill, Victor Trumper and Frank Laver, the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket. Led by Peter McAlister, who was attempting to gain more control of tours from the players. This led to six leading players (the so-called "Big Six") walking out on the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England, with Australia fielding what was generally considered a second-rate side. This was the last series before the war, and no more cricket was played by Australia for eight years, with Tibby Cotter being killed in Palestine during the war.

Cricket between the wars

Test cricket resumed in the 1920/21 season in Australia with a touring English team, captained by Johnny Douglas losing all five Tests to Australia, captained by the "Big Ship" Warwick Armstrong. Several players from before the war, including Warwick Armstrong, Charlie Macartney, Charles Kelleway, Warren Bardsley and the wicket-keeper Sammy Carter, were instrumental in the team's success, as well as new players Herbie Collins, Jack Ryder, Bert Oldfield, the spinner Arthur Mailey and the so-called "twin destroyers" Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald. The team continued its success on the 1921 Tour of England, winning three out of the five Tests in Warwick Armstrong's last series. The side was, on the whole, inconsistent in the latter half of the 1920s, losing its first home Ashes series since the 1911–12 season in 1928–29.

The Bradman Era

The 1930 Tour of England heralded a new age of success for the Australian team. The team, led by Bill Woodfull – the "Great Un-bowlable" – featured legends of the game including Bill Ponsford, Stan McCabe, Clarrie Grimmett and the young pair of Archie Jackson and Don Bradman. Bradman was the outstanding batsman of the series, scoring a record 974 runs, including one century, two double centuries and one triple century, a massive score of 334 at Leeds which including 309 runs in a day. Jackson died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 three years later, after playing eight tests. The team was widely considered unstoppable, winning nine of its next ten Tests.

The 1932–33 England tour of Australia is considered one of the most infamous episodes of cricket, due to the England team's use of bodyline, where captain Douglas Jardine instructed his bowlers Bill Voce and Harold Larwood to bowl fast, short-pitched deliveries aimed at the bodies of the Australian batsmen. The tactic, although effective, was widely considered by Australian crowds as vicious and unsporting. Injuries to Bill Woodfull, who was struck over the heart, and Bert Oldfield, who received a fractured skull (although from a non-Bodyline ball), exacerbated the situation, almost causing a full-scale riot from the 50 000 fans at the Adelaide Oval for the Third Test. The conflict almost escalated into a diplomatic incident between the two countries, as leading Australian political figures, including the Governor of South Australia, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, protested to their English counterparts. The series ended in a 4–1 win for England but the Bodyline tactics used were banned the year after.

The Australian team managed to overcome the damaging series, winning their next tour of England in 1934. The team was led by Bill Woodfull on his final tour, and was notably dominated by Ponsford and Bradman, who twice put on partnerships of over 380 runs, with Bradman once again scoring a triple-century at Leeds. The bowling was dominated by the spin pair of Bill O'Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett, who took 53 wickets between them, with O'Reilly twice taking seven-wicket hauls.

Sir Donald Bradman is widely considered the greatest batsman of all time.[12][13] He dominated the sport from 1930 until his retirement in 1948, setting new records for the highest score in a test innings (334 vs England at Headingley in 1930), the most number of runs (6996), the most number of centuries (29), the most number of double centuries and the greatest Test and first-class batting averages. His record for the highest Test batting average – 99.94 – has never been beaten. It is almost 40 runs above the next highest average. He would have finished with an average of over 100 runs per innings if he had not been dismissed for a duck in his last Test. He was knighted in 1949 for services to cricket. He is generally considered one of Australia's greatest sporting heroes.

Test cricket was again interrupted by war, with the last Test series in 1938 made notable by Len Hutton making a world record 364 for England, with Chuck Fleetwood-Smith conceding 298 runs in England's world record total of 7–903. Ross Gregory, a notable young batsman who played two Tests before the war, was killed in the war.

Cricket after World War II

The team continued its success after the end of the Second World War, with the first Test (also Australia's first against New Zealand) being played in the 1945–46 season against New Zealand. Australia was by far the most successful team of the 1940s, being undefeated throughout the decade, winning two Ashes series against England and its first Test series against India. The team capitalised on its ageing stars Bradman, Sid Barnes, Bill Brown and Lindsay Hassett while new talent, including Ian Johnson, Don Tallon, Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Bill Johnston and the fast bowling pair of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, who all made their debut in the latter half of the 1940s, and were to form the basis of the team for a good part of the next decade. The team that Don Bradman led to England in 1948 gained the moniker The Invincibles, after going through the tour without losing a single game. Of 31 first-class games played during the tour, they won 23 and drew 8, including winning the five-match Test series 4–0, with one draw. The tour was particularly notable for the Fourth Test of the series, in which Australia won by seven wickets chasing a target of 404, setting a new record for the highest runchase in Test cricket, with Arthur Morris and Bradman both scoring centuries, as well as for the final Test in the series, Bradman's last, where he finished with a duck in his last innings after needing only four runs to secure a career average of 100.

Australia was less successful in the 1950s, losing three consecutive Ashes series to England, including a horrendous 1956 Tour of England, where the 'spin twins' Laker and Lock destroyed Australia, taking 61 wickets between them, including Laker taking 19 wickets in the game (a first-class record) at Leeds, a game dubbed Laker's Match.

However, the team rebounded to win five consecutive series in the latter half of the 1950s, first under the leadership of Ian Johnson, then Ian Craig and Richie Benaud. The series against the West Indies in the 1960–61 season was notable for the Tied Test in the first game at The Gabba, which was the first in Test cricket. Australia ended up winning the series 2–1 after a hard fought series that was praised for its excellent standards and sense of fair-play. Stand-out players in that series as well as through the early part of the 1960s were Richie Benaud, who took a then-record number of wickets as a leg-spinner, and who also captained Australia in 28 Tests, including 24 without defeat; Alan Davidson, who became the first player to take 10 wickets and make 100 runs in the same game in the first Test, and was also a notable fast-bowler; Bob Simpson, who also later captained Australia for two different periods of time; Colin McDonald, the first-choice opening batsman for most of the 1950s and early '60s; Norm O'Neill, who made 181 in the Tied Test; Neil Harvey, towards the end of his long career; and Wally Grout, an excellent wicket-keeper who died at the age of 41.

1970s and onward

The Centenary Test was played in March 1977 at the MCG to celebrate 100 years since the first Test was played. Australia ended winning by 45 runs, an identical result to the first Test match.[14]

In May 1977 Kerry Packer announced he was organising a breakaway competition – World Series Cricket (WSC) – after the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) refused to accept Channel Nine's bid to gain exclusive television rights to Australia's Test matches in 1976. Packer secretly signed leading international cricketers to his competition, including 28 Australians. Almost all of the Australian Test team at the time were signed to WSC – notable exceptions including Gary Cosier, Geoff Dymock, Kim Hughes and Craig Serjeant – and the Australian selectors were forced to pick what was generally considered a third-rate team from players in the Sheffield Shield. Former player Bob Simpson, who had retired 10 years previously after a conflict with the board, was recalled at the age of 41 to captain Australia against India. Jeff Thomson was named deputy in a team that included seven debutants. Australia managed to win the series 3–2, mainly thanks to the batting of Simpson, who scored 539 runs, including two centuries; and the bowling of Wayne Clark, who took 28 wickets. Australia lost the next series—against the West Indies, which was fielding a full team—3–1, and also lost the 1978–79 Ashes series 5–1, the team's worst Ashes result in Australia. Graham Yallop was named as captain for the Ashes, with Kim Hughes taking over for the 1979–80 tour of India. Rodney Hogg still managed to take 41 wickets in his debut series, an Australian record. WSC players returned to the team for the 1979–80 season after a settlement between the ACB and Kerry Packer. Greg Chappell was reinstated as captain.

The underarm bowling incident of 1981 occurred when, in a ODI against New Zealand, Greg Chappell instructed his brother Trevor to bowl an underarm delivery to New Zealand batsman Brian McKechnie, with New Zealand needing a six to tie off the last ball. The aftermath of the incident soured political relations between Australia and New Zealand, with several leading political and cricketing figures calling it "unsportsmanlike" and "not in the spirit of cricket".

Australia continued its success up until the early 1980s, built around Bob Simpson, the Chappell brothers, Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson and Rod Marsh. The 1980s was a period of relative mediocrity after the turmoil caused by the Rebel Tours of South Africa and the subsequent retirement of several key players. The rebel tours were funded by the South African Cricket Board to compete against its national side, which had been banned—along with many other sports, including Olympic athletes—from competing internationally, due to the South African government's racist apartheid policies. Some of Australia's best players were poached: Graham Yallop, Carl Rackemann, Terry Alderman, Rodney Hogg, Kim Hughes, John Dyson, Greg Shipperd, Steve Rixon and Steve Smith amongst others. These players were handed three-year suspensions by the Australian Cricket Board which greatly weakened the player pool for the national sides, as most were either current representative players or on the verge of gaining honours.

Under the captaincy of Allan Border and the new fielding standards put in place by new coach Bob Simpson, the team was restructured and gradually rebuilt their cricketing stocks. Some of the rebel players returned to the national side after serving their suspensions, including Trevor Hohns, Carl Rackemann and Terry Alderman. During these lean years, it was the batsmen Border, David Boon, Dean Jones, the young Steve Waugh and the bowling feats of Alderman, Bruce Reid, Craig McDermott, Merv Hughes and to a lesser extent, Geoff Lawson who kept the Australian side afloat.

With the emergence of players such as Ian Healy, Mark Taylor, Geoff Marsh, Mark Waugh, Greg Matthews, Damien Martyn and Matthew Hayden in the late 1980s, Australia was on the way back from the doldrums. Winning the Ashes in 1989, the Australians got a roll on beating Pakistan, Sri Lanka and then followed it up with another Ashes win on home soil in 1991. The Australians went on to the West Indies and had their chances but ended up losing the series. However, they bounced back and beat the Indians in their next Test series. With the retirement of the champion but defensive, Allan Border, a new era of attacking cricket had begun under the leadership of firstly Mark Taylor and then Steve Waugh.

Australia won the 2015 Cricket World Cup

The 1990s and early 21st century were arguably Australia's most successful period, unbeaten in all Ashes series played bar the famous 2005 series and achieving a hat-trick of World Cups. This success has been attributed to the restructuring of the team and system by Border, successive aggressive captains, and the effectiveness of several key players, most notably Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Hussey and Ricky Ponting. Following the 2006/07 Ashes series which Australia won 5 nill, Australia slipped in the rankings after the retirements of key players. In the 2013/14 Ashes series, Australia again defeated England 5 nil, and climbed back to 3rd on the ICC International Test Rankings. In February & March 2014 Australia beat the number 1 team in the world, South Africa, 2–1, and were re-ranked number 1 in the world. The Australian team was marred by the death of Phillip Hughes on November 27, 2014. In 2015, Australia won the 2015 Cricket World Cup. As of December 2015, Australia is ranked 3rd in Test Cricket and 1st in ODI Cricket.

International grounds

Locations of all stadiums which have hosted an international cricket match within Australia

Team colors

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
2006-2007 Adidas Travelex
2008-2010 Victoria Bitter
2011-2013 Asics
2014 Carlton Mid
2015 Commonwealth Bank H and Qantas A
2016 Victoria Bitter H and Qantas A

For Test matches, the team wears Cricket Whites, with an optional sweater or sweater-vest with a green and gold V-neck for use in cold weather. The sponsor's (currently Commonwealth Bank for Home Test matches and Qantas for Away Test matches) logo is displayed on the right side of the chest while the Cricket Australia coat-of-arms is displayed on the left. If the sweater is being worn the coat-of-arms is displayed under the V-neck and the sponsor's logo is again displayed on the right side of the chest.[15] The baggy green, the Australian cricket cap, is considered an essential part of the cricketing uniform and as a symbol of the national team, with new players being presented with one upon their selection in the team. The helmet also prominently displays the Australian cricketing coat-of-arms. At the end of 2011, ASICS was named the manufacture the whites and limited over uniforms from Adidas, with the ASICS logo being displayed on the shirt and pants. Players may choose any manufacturer for their other gear (bat, pads, shoes, gloves, etc.).

In One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International cricket, the team wears uniforms usually coloured green and gold, the national colours of Australia. There has been a variety of different styles and layouts used in both forms of the limited-overs game, with coloured clothing (sometimes known as "pyjamas") being introduced for World Series Cricket in the late 1970s. The sponsors' logos (the Victoria Bitter for Home ODIs, KFC for Home Twenty20s and Qantas for Away ODIs and Away Twenty20) are prominently displayed on the shirts and other gears. The Current Home ODI Kit consists of green as the primary colour and gold as the secondary colour. The Away Kit is the opposite of the Home Kit with gold as the primary colour and green as the secondary colour. The Home Twenty20s uniform consists of navy blue with the natural colours of Australia, green and gold strips.[16] However, since Australia beat New Zealand in MCG in the 2015 Cricket World Cup wearing the gold uniform, it has also become their primary colour, with the hats used being called 'floppy gold', formerly known as 'baggy gold', a limited-overs equivalent to a Baggy Green.[17]

Players

This lists all the active players who have played for Australia in the past year and the forms in which they have played in that time, along with any players outside this criteria who've been selected in the team's most recent squad. Players in italics represent players selected in Australian squad for the T20I series against India.[18]

For the 2015–16 season Cricket Australia's National Selection Panel (NSP) have announced 19 players contracted to the national side from which selectors choose Test, One-Day and Twenty20 International teams. Salaries are based on a player ranking system decided by the NSP as well as match fees, tour fees and prize money for on-field success.[19] Uncontracted players remain eligible for selection and can be upgraded to a Cricket Australia contract if they gain regular selection.

Key

Name Age Batting style Bowling style State Forms S/N[20] C Notes
Opening Batsman
Joe Burns 26 Right-handed Right-arm medium Queensland Test, ODI 15
Aaron Finch 29 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Victoria ODI, T20I 5 Y
David Warner 29 Left-handed Right-arm medium/leg spin New South Wales Test, ODI, T20I 31 Y Test, ODI&T20I Vice-Captain
Chris Lynn 25 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Queensland T20I 50
Middle-order batsmen
George Bailey 33 Right-handed Right-arm medium Tasmania ODI 2 Y
Usman Khawaja 29 Left-handed Right-arm medium Queensland Test, T20I 1
Shaun Marsh 32 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Western Australia Test, ODI, T20I 9 Y
Travis Head 22 Left-handed Right-arm off spin South Australia T20I 62
Steve Smith 26 Right-handed Right-arm leg spin New South Wales Test, ODI, T20I 49 Y Test,ODI&T20I Captain
Adam Voges 36 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Western Australia Test 24 Y
Wicket-keepers
Peter Nevill 30 Right-handed NSW Test -
Matthew Wade 28 Left-handed Right-arm medium Victoria ODI, T20I 13
Cameron Bancroft 23 Right-handed Western Australia T20I 43
All-rounders
James Faulkner 25 Right-handed Left-arm fast medium Tasmania ODI, T20I 44 Injured
Mitchell Marsh 24 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium Western Australia Test, ODI, T20I 8 Y
Glenn Maxwell 27 Right-handed Right-arm off spin Victoria ODI, T20I 32 Y
Marcus Stoinis 26 Right-handed Right-arm medium Victoria ODI, T20I 17
Shane Watson 34 Right-handed Right-arm medium NSW ODI, T20I 33 Y
Pace bowlers
Scott Boland 26 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium Victoria ODI, T20I 26
Nathan Coulter-Nile 28 Right-handed Right-arm fast Western Australia ODI, T20I 6 Injured
Pat Cummins 22 Right-handed Right-arm fast New South Wales ODI, T20I 30 Y Injured
John Hastings 30 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium Victoria ODI, T20I 41
Josh Hazlewood 25 Left-handed Right-arm fast medium New South Wales Test, ODI 38 Y
Joel Paris 23 Left-handed Left-arm fast medium Western Australia ODI 11
James Pattinson 25 Left-handed Right-arm fast medium Victoria Test, ODI 19 Y
Kane Richardson 25 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium South Australia ODI, T20I 47
Peter Siddle 31 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium Victoria Test 10
Mitchell Starc 26 Left-handed Left-arm fast New South Wales Test, ODI, T20I 56 Y Injured
Shaun Tait 32 Right-handed Right-arm fast South Australia T20I 85
Andrew Tye 29 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium Western Australia T20I 68
Spin Bowlers
Ashton Agar 22 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Western Australia ODI 46
Cameron Boyce 26 Right-handed Right-arm legbreak Queensland T20I 34
Xavier Doherty 33 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Tasmania ODI 3
Nathan Lyon 28 Right-handed Right-arm off spin South Australia Test, ODI, T20I 67 Y
Steve O'Keefe 31 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox New South Wales Test 72
Adam Zampa 23 Right-handed Right-arm legbreak South Australia ODI 63

Coaching staff

Current international rankings

ICC Test Championship
Rank Team Matches Points Rating
1  India 32 3535 110
2  Australia 40 4376 109
3  South Africa 34 3703 109
4  Pakistan 28 2977 106
5  England 45 4610 102
6  New Zealand 36 3578 99
7  Sri Lanka 35 3123 89
8  West Indies 33 2504 76
9  Bangladesh 22 1026 47
10  Zimbabwe 10 53 5
Reference: ICC Rankings, 26 January 2016
"Matches" is no. matches + no. series played in the 12-24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that.

Reliance ICC ODI Rankings
Rank Team Matches Points Rating
1  Australia 52 6570 126
2  New Zealand 57 6474 114
3  India 61 6871 113
4  South Africa 62 6921 112
5  Sri Lanka 67 6956 104
6  England 61 6143 101
7  Bangladesh 37 3571 97
8  Pakistan 59 5105 87
9  West Indies 38 3256 86
10  Afghanistan 25 1185 47
11  Ireland 15 683 46
12  Zimbabwe 55 2466 45
Reference: ICC Rankings, 14 February 2016
"Matches" is the no. matches played in the 12-24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that.

ICC T20I Championship
Rank Team Matches Points Rating
1  India 20 2439 122
2  West Indies 19 2249 118
3  England 20 2330 117
4  New Zealand 24 2787 116
5  Sri Lanka 22 2549 116
6  South Africa 25 2879 115
7  Pakistan 30 3375 113
8  Australia 20 2197 110
9  Afghanistan 19 1513 80
10  Bangladesh 16 1028 64
11  Scotland 14 876 63
12  Hong Kong 13 802 62
13  Netherlands 16 939 59
14  Zimbabwe 22 1190 54
15  Ireland 14 708 51
Insufficient matches
 Papua New Guinea 6 — 51
 Oman 7 — 27
 United Arab Emirates 9 — 22
Reference: ICC Rankings, 15 February 2016
"Matches" is the no. matches played in the 12-24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that.

Test match records

Team

Appearances

Batting

Bowling

Fielding and wicketkeeping

One Day International records

Team

Appearances

Batting

Bowling

Fielding and wicket-keeping

Tournament history

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Australia

ICC World Cup

World Cup record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
England 1975 Runners-up2/853200
England 1979Group Stage6/831200
England 1983Group Stage6/862400
India Pakistan 1987Champions1/887100
Australia New Zealand 1992Round 15/984400
India Pakistan Sri Lanka 1996Runners-up2/1275200
England 1999Champions1/12107210
South Africa 2003Champions1/141111000
West Indies Cricket Board 2007Champions1/161111000
India Sri Lanka Bangladesh 2011Quarter-finals6/1474201
Australia New Zealand 2015Champions1/1497101
England 2019–––––
Total5 titles185622012

ICC World Twenty20

World Twenty20 record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
South Africa 2007 Semi-finals 3/12 6 3 3 0 0
England 2009 Round 1 11/12 2 0 2 0 0
West Indies Cricket Board 2010 Runners-up 2/12 7 6 1 0 0
Sri Lanka 2012 Semi-finals 3/12 6 4 2 0 0
Bangladesh 2014 Super 10 8/16 4 1 3 0 0
India 2016 – – – – – – –
Australia 2020 – – – – – – –
Total 0 titles 5/5 25 14 11 0 0

ICC Champions Trophy

Champions Trophy record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
Bangladesh 1998Quarter-finals6/910100
Kenya 2000Quarter-finals5/1110100
Sri Lanka 2002Semi-finals4/1232100
England 2004Semi-finals3/1232100
India 2006Champions1/1254100
South Africa 2009Champions1/854001
England 2013Group Stage7/830201
India 2017-------
Total2 Titles6/62112702

Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
Malaysia 1998Runners-up2/1654100
Total0 Titles1/154100

Under the Southern Cross I Stand

The team song is "Under the Southern Cross I Stand", which is sung by the players after every victory and "treated with reverential consideration and respect" within the team.[50] The official lyrics are as follows, though when it is sung by the players, the word "little" in the last line is replaced by "bloody" or an expletive.

Under the Southern Cross I Stand
A sprig of wattle in my hand,
A native of my native land,
Australia you little beauty.[51]

The authorship of this "Under the Southern Cross I Stand" is credited to former wicketkeeper Rod Marsh, who was apparently inspired by Henry Lawson's 1887 poem, "Flag of the Southern Cross".[50] Marsh initially had the role of leading the team in singing it, and on his retirement he passed it on to Allan Border. The other players to have taken on the role are David Boon (when Border took over the captaincy), Ian Healy (on Boon's retirement), Ricky Ponting (on Healy's retirement), Justin Langer (when Ponting took over the captaincy). The role was then passed on to Michael Hussey, who took it on when Langer retired in January 2007. At Hussey's retirement on 6 January 2013, he announced that he would be handing the duties over to Nathan Lyon.[52]

See also

Notes

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  2. 1 2 3 "Records / Test matches / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Records / 2016 / Test matches / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "1st Test: Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 15–19, 1877 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "Only ODI: Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  6. ↑ "Only T20I: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  7. ↑ "ICC Rankings - Cricket Test Rankings - ICC Cricket". http://www.icc-cricket.com. External link in |work= (help)
  8. ↑ "Records | One-Day Internationals | ESPN Cricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "World Cup day 29 as it happened". BBC News. 19 March 2011.
  10. ↑ "Records | ESPN Cricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Victor Trumper | Cricket Players and Officials". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  12. ↑ mohankaus (17 January 2009). "ICC's "Best Ever" batsmen and bowlers!". i3j3Cricket :: A blog for fans of Indian cricket... Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  13. ↑ "The 10 Greatest Batsmen Ever". World Cricket Watch. 15 October 2009. Archived from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  14. ↑ Remembering the 1977 Centenary Test – The Roar. Published 1 November 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  15. ↑ CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/sports/photos/2010/12/27/ponting-ricky101227getty.jpg. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ↑ "ASICS unveil new uniforms – Cricket Australia". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
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