Australia’s cricket team. The team won the first ODI against England in 1970–71 and the first T20I against New Zealand in 2004–05. Sheffield Shield, limited-overs, and Big Bash League players. National team has played 847 Tests, winning 403, losing 227, drawing 215 and tying 2. May 2022 ICC Test Championship leader Australia has 128 rating points. Australia leads Test cricket victories, win–loss ratio, and wins%.
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592 wins, 340 losses, 9 draws, and 34 losses in 975 ODI matches. Australia has been leading in the ICC ODI Championship for 141 of 185 months since its 2002 debut. Australia has reached seven World Cup finals and won five World Cups (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2015). (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015). Australia is the only team to win three consecutive World Cups (1996, 1999, 2003, and 2007) and compete in four straight finals (1996, 1999, 2003, and 2007). (1999, 2003 and 2007). Pakistan defeated them by 4 wickets in the 2011 Group stage after 34 consecutive World Cup wins. The national team has played 174 Twenty20 Internationals, winning 91, losing 76, tying 3, and losing 4 to no result.
History:
Recent history:
At the MCG in 1877, Charles Bannerman scored the first Test century, 165 retired hurt. Aussie defeated England by 45 runs. Test cricket, played only between Australia and England, was shortened by the long sea travel. Despite Aussie’s smaller population, the team was competitive in early games, producing stars like Jack Blackham, Billy Murdoch, Fred “The Demon” Spofforth, George Bonnor, Percy McDonnell, George Giffen, and Charles “The Terror” Turner. Except for South Australian all-rounder George Giffen, most players were from NSW or Vic.
A golden era:
Australian Test cricket was in its “Golden Age” under Joe Darling, Monty Noble, and Clem Hill. It may have occurred between the English tour of Australia in 1897–1898 and the South African tour in 1910–1911. Batsmen like Joe Darling, Clem Hill, Reggie Duff, Syd Gregory, Warren Bardsley, and Victor Trumper, all-rounders like Monty Noble, George Giffen, Harry Trott, and Warwick Armstrong, and bowlers like Ernie Jones, Hugh Trumble, Tibby Cotter, Bill Howell, Jack Saunders, and Bill Whitty helped Aussie become the best cricketing nation for most of this time.
Australian sports legend Victor Trumper. He was popular and considered Australia’s best batsman before Bradman. He scored 3,163 runs at 39.04 in 49 Tests, a record. The nation mourned his kidney disease-related death in 1915 at 37. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack called him Aussie’s best batsman in his obituary. “Victor Trumper was the greatest and brightest Australian batsman,” it added.
Interwar years:
In the 1920/21 season in Australia, Johnny Douglas’ English team lost all five Tests to Warwick Armstrong’s “Big Ship” Aussie. Warwick Armstrong, Charlie Macartney, Charles Kelleway, Warren Bardsley, Sammy Carter, Herbie Collins, Jack Ryder, Bert Oldfield, Arthur Mailey, and the “twin destroyers” Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald helped the team succeed. The squad won three of Warwick Armstrong’s last five Tests in England in 1921. In 1928–29, the team lost its first home Ashes series since 1911–12 because to inconsistency.
The Bradman era:
The 1930 England tour marked Australian success. Bill Ponsford, Stan McCabe, Clarrie Grimmett, Archie Jackson, and Don Bradman played for “Great Un-bowlable” Bill Woodfull. Bradman scored a record 974 runs, including 309 at Leeds. Jackson died at 23 of TB three years after eight Tests. Unbeatable, the squad won nine of their next ten Tests. Cricket’s most notorious bodyline incident occurred during England’s 1932–33 tour of Australia. Captain Douglas Jardine ordered Bill Voce and Harold Larwood to bowl fast, short-pitched deliveries at the Australian batsmen’s bodies.
Cricket World Series and Restructuring:
In March 1977, the Centenary Test was held at the MCG. Australia triumphed again, 45 runs. Kerry Packer launched World Series Cricket (WSC) in May 1977 after Channel Nine lost exclusive rights to Aussie’s Test matches in 1976. Packer smuggled 28 Australian cricketers. WSC signed all save Gary Cosier, Geoff Dymock, Kim Hughes, and Craig Serjeant, forcing the Australian selectors to pick a third-rate Sheffield Shield team. Bob Simpson, who retired 10 years previously after a board dispute, captained Australia against India at 41.
Seven debutants made Jeff Thomson deputy. Simpson’s 539 runs—two centuries—and Clark’s 28 wickets helped Australia win 3–2. Australia lost the next series 3–1 to a full-strength West Indies team and the 1978–79 Ashes 5–1, their worst performance in Australia. In 1979–80, Kim Hughes led India and Graham Yallop the Ashes. Australian rookie Rodney Hogg took 41 wickets. WSC returned for 1979–80 after an ACB-Kerry Packer deal. Captain Greg Chappell returned. In a 1981 ODI against New Zealand, Greg Chappell ordered his brother Trevor to bowl an underarm delivery to Brian McKechnie, who needed a six to tie off the last ball.
A golden age:
Australian cricket’s “Golden Era” was the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Australia became the strongest Test squad after World Series Cricket. Captain Allan Border and new coach Bob Simpson’s fielding standards rebuilt the team. Rebels Trevor Hohns, Carl Rackemann, and Terry Alderman rejoined the national team after serving punishments. Border, David Boon, Dean Jones, the young Steve Waugh, Alderman, Bruce Reid, Craig McDermott, Merv Hughes, and Geoff Lawson kept Australia afloat throughout these difficult years.
Ian Healy, Mark Taylor, Geoff Marsh, Mark Waugh, and Greg Matthews helped Australia rebound in the late 1980s. After winning the 1989 Ashes, Australia defeated Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and won again at home in 1991. Aussie fell against West Indies despite chances. However, after retiring champion but defensive Allan Border, they overcame the Indians in their next Test series. Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh introduced aggressive cricket.
Current century:
After important players retired, Aussie fell in the rankings after winning the 2006–07 Ashes 5–0. Aussies won the 2013/14 Ashes series 5–0 and returned to third in the ICC International Test rankings. Australia overcame world No. 1 South Africa 2–1 in February/March 2014 to reclaim the top spot. Baggy Greens won the 2015 World Cup with one loss.
Australia is first in the ICC Test Championship, fourth in the ODI Championship, and second in the T20I Championship as of December 2020.
Ball manipulation incident from 2018:
On 25 March 2018, Cameron Bancroft, Steve Smith, David Warner, and the team leadership were accused of ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa. Smith and Bancroft admitted to touching the ball with ground-up adhesive tape to change its state (it was later revealed that sandpaper was used). Smith altered the ball’s surface to cause reverse swing. After being caught tampering with the ball, Bancroft shifted a yellow object from a pocket to the inside front of his trousers to conceal the evidence.
Steve Smith and David Warner were sacked as captains after Darren Lehmann helped Cameron Bancroft tamper the ball in the third Test. Bancroft was penalized 75% and given 3 demerit points by the ICC, while Smith was banned for one match and fined 100%. Cricket Australia kicked Smith and Warner off the tour (along with Bancroft). Tim Paine. Smith and Warner received 12 months and Bancroft 9 months from Cricket Australia. Warner cannot captain any Cricket Aussie team for life, while Smith and Bancroft cannot lead for 12 months.
Team colors:
Test matches are played in cricket whites with a green-and-gold V-neck sweater or sweater-vest for chilly weather. Cricket Australia is left, Alinta and Qantas right. Cricket Aussie’s logo is under the V-neck and the sponsor’s on the right breast. 2011 ASICS manufactured Adidas whites and limited over outfits. Any gear maker is allowed (bat, pads, shoes, gloves, etc.).
Aussie’s national colors—green and gold—are worn in ODI and T20 International cricket. World Series Cricket introduced colorful “pyjamas” to limited-overs cricket in the late 1970s. Clothing is Alinta or Qantas-branded. Green-and-gold home ODI kit Gold-green is the away kit. Black home Twenty20 uniforms with Australian green and gold stripes. Since Australia defeated New Zealand at the MCG in the 2015 Cricket World Cup wearing gold, it has become their primary color, with the hats being termed “floppy gold” instead of “baggy gold,” a limited-overs analogue of baggy green. Aussie wore yellow ODI helmets through the early 2000s and temporarily in 2020.
Squad:
Cricket Australia announced their 2022-2023 national contracts on 7 April 2022. National team selection can elevate non-contract players during the year. Tests count five points, ODIs two, and T20Is one.
This list includes all Cricket Australia-contracted players who have played for Australia since November 2021 or were named in recent Test, ODI, or T20I squads. Italicize uncapped players.
| Name | Age | Batting style | Bowling style | State | Forms | S/N | C | Captaincy |
| Batsmen | ||||||||
| Tim David | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | — | T20I | 85 | ||
| Aaron Finch | 36 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Victoria | T20I | 5 | Y | T20I (C) |
| Marcus Harris | 30 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | Victoria | Test | 14 | ||
| Travis Head | 28 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | South Australia | Test, ODI, T20I | 62 | Y | |
| Usman Khawaja | 36 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | Queensland | Test | 1 | Y | |
| Steve Smith | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | New South Wales | Test, ODI, T20I | 49 | Y | Test (VC) |
| David Warner | 36 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | New South Wales | Test, ODI, T20I | 31 | Y | |
| All-rounders | ||||||||
| Sean Abbott | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | New South Wales | ODI, T20I | 77 | ||
| Cameron Green | 23 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Western Australia | Test, ODI, T20I | 42 | Y | |
| Marnus Labuschagne | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Queensland | Test, ODI, T20I | 33 | Y | |
| Mitchell Marsh | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Western Australia | ODI, T20I | 8 | Y | |
| Glenn Maxwell | 34 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Victoria | ODI, T20I | 32 | Y | |
| Michael Neser | 32 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Queensland | Test | 18 | ||
| Daniel Sams | 30 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | New South Wales | T20I | 95 | ||
| Marcus Stoinis | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Western Australia | ODI, T20I | 17 | Y | |
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||||
| Alex Carey | 31 | Left-handed | — | South Australia | Test, ODI | 4 | Y | |
| Josh Inglis | 27 | Right-handed | — | Western Australia | ODI, T20I | 48 | Y | |
| Ben McDermott | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Tasmania | ODI, T20I | 47 | ||
| Matthew Wade | 34 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | Tasmania | T20I | 13 | ||
| Spin Bowlers | ||||||||
| Ashton Agar | 29 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Western Australia | ODI, T20I | 46 | Y | |
| Matthew Kuhnemann | 26 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Queensland | ODI | 50 | ||
| Nathan Lyon | 35 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | New South Wales | Test | 67 | Y | |
| Mitch Swepson | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Queensland | Test, ODI, T20I | 22 | Y | |
| Adam Zampa | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | South Australia | ODI, T20I | 88 | Y | |
| Pace Bowlers | ||||||||
| Jason Behrendorff | 32 | Right-handed | Leftt-arm fast-medium | Western Australia | ODI | 65 | ||
| Scott Boland | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Victoria | Test | 19 | Y | |
| Pat Cummins | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | New South Wales | Test, ODI, T20I | 30 | Y | Test and ODI (C); T20I (VC) |
| Ben Dwarshuis | 28 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | New South Wales | T20I | 82 | ||
| Nathan Ellis | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Tasmania | ODI, T20I | 12 | ||
| Josh Hazlewood | 31 | Left-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | New South Wales | Test, ODI, T20I | 38 | Y | |
| Jhye Richardson | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Western Australia | Test, ODI, T20I | 60 | ||
| Kane Richardson | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Queensland | T20I | 55 | ||
| Mitchell Starc | 32 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast | New South Wales | Test, ODI, T20I | 56 | Y |
Coaching personnel:
| Position | Name |
| Head coach | Andrew McDonald |
| Assistant coach | Andre Borovec |
| Assistant coach | Daniel Vettori |
| Batting coach | Michael Di Venuto |
| Physiotherapist | Nick Jones |
| Psychologist | Mary Spillane |
Records:
Test match records
Team:
- Australia has won the most Tests. It has won around 47% of 350 Test matches. South Africa scored 37%.
- Australia played the only two Tied Tests. In December 1960, Brisbane hosted the West Indies. Second, versus India in Madras in September 1986. (Chennai).
- Australia’s biggest Test win was on 24 February 2002. Australia won by 360 runs in Johannesburg.
- Australia has the most consecutive wins, 16. This was done twice: October 1999–February 2001 and December 2005–January 2008.
- Australia won 9 series from October 2005 to June 2008, tying the record. England shares this record.
- In June 1955, Australia scored its highest Test match innings in Kingston, Jamaica against the West Indies. Australia’s first innings totaled 758/8 with five centuries.
- Australia’s lowest Test match innings total was in Birmingham against England in May 1902. Australia lost 36 wickets.
- Australia is the only team to lose a Test match after imposing the follow-on, losing all three:
- First Test of 1894–95 Ashes.
- 1981 Ashes Test 3.
- India’s 2000–01 Border-Gavaskar Trophy Second Test.
- Australia became the first team to declare in their first innings and lose by an innings against India in March 2013.
- Australia won the 2013–14 Ashes series 5–0, taking all 100 wickets.
Batting:
- Charles Bannerman faced the first ball, hit the first runs, and made the first Test century.
- Match 1’s Australian first innings total was 67.34% by Charles Bannerman. This remains the highest percentage of a completed innings scored by a single batsman.
- Aussie’s Test cricket record is 13,378 runs by Ricky Ponting. Allan Border, who scored 11,174 runs in 265 innings, was surpassed by Brian Lara’s 226 against Australia. Steve Waugh scored 10,927 in 260 innings.
- Allan Border was the first Test batsman to reach 10,000 and 11,000 runs.
- Ricky Ponting scored 12,000 and 13,000 Test runs first for Australia.
- Matthew Hayden’s 380 runs in the first Test against Zimbabwe in Perth in October 2003 set an Australian record.
- Australian cricketer Donald Bradman has the highest average of 99.94 runs per dismissal. Bradman scored 29 hundreds and 13 fifties in 52 Tests.
- Ricky Ponting has 41 centuries, the most by an Australian cricketer. Steve Waugh, former Australian captain, is second with 32 centuries from 260 innings.
- With 63 fifties in 265 innings, Allan Border owns the Australian record.
- Australian Adam Gilchrist has the fastest century.
- Glenn McGrath has 35 ducks in 138 innings, an Australian cricket record.
Bowling:
- Match 1 saw Billy Midwinter’s first Test five-wicket haul.
- In consecutive deliveries, Fred Spofforth dismissed Vernon Royle, Francis McKinnon, and Tom Emmett for Test cricket’s first hat-trick.
- Fred Spofforth had the first 10-wicket Test match haul.
- Shane Warne has 708 wickets in 145 Test matches, an Australian cricket record.
- In February 1921, Arthur Mailey bowled 9/121 against England.
- In June 1972, Bob Massie bowled 16/137 against England. His first Test match for Australia.
- J. J. Ferris had 61 wickets at 12.70, the best Australian bowling average.
- Clarrie Grimmett took 44 wickets against South Africa in 1935–36, a Test series record.
International one-day records:
Team:
- Aussie’s highest One-Day International innings total is 434/4 off 50 overs against South Africa in Johannesburg on 12 March 2006. In the same match, the South Africans broke this global record.
- Aussie’s lowest ODI score is 70. In 1977 and 1986, England and New Zealand scored this score.
- Aussie’s biggest ODI win is 275 runs. Against Afghanistan at the 2015 World Cup in Australia.
- Only Australia has won three straight World Cups (1999, 2003, and 2007).
- Australia won a record 34 World Cup matches. Australia went undefeated from 1999 through 2011, when Pakistan defeated them again.
- Australia has won the most World Cups—5.
Batting:
- Ricky Ponting has 13,291.
- Ricky Ponting has 30 ODI centuries.
- With 82 One-Day International fifties, Ricky Ponting leads Australian batsmen.
- Ricky Ponting is the first Australian to score 10,000 ODI runs.
- Shane Watson’s 185* is the highest Australian innings not out.
- Australia’s most sixes in an innings are 15 by Shane Watson.
- Only Phillip Hughes scored a century on his One-Day International debut.
Bowling:
- Glenn McGrath has 381.
- Glenn McGrath’s 7/15 is Aussie’s best.
- Brett Lee has nine five-wicket hauls.
List of Australia’s Twenty20 cricket accomplishments
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a cricket match between two ICC members that lasts 20 overs. The matches are T20’s best. Twenty20 cricket regulations apply. Australia and New Zealand played the first men’s Twenty20 International on 17 February 2005. ESPNcricinfo stated that “the concept would have shuddered” without Ricky Ponting’s big score. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack stated that “neither side took the game extremely seriously”. Ponting stated, “If it does become a worldwide game then I’m sure the novelty won’t be there all the time”. Aussie’s Twenty20 International records. Based on the List of Twenty20 International records, it covers just Australian cricket team records. 2005 was Australia’s first T20I.
Team records:
| Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | Win % |
| 174 | 94 | 76 | 3 | 4 | 54.41 |
Team victories, defeats, ties, and draws:
Australia has won 54.41 percent of its 174 T20I matches as of September 2022.
| Opponent | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | No Result | % Won | |||
| Full Members | |||||||||
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |||
| Bangladesh | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |||
| England | 23 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 47.61 | |||
| India | 26 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 40.00 | |||
| Ireland | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |||
| New Zealand | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 65.62 | |||
| Pakistan | 25 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 47.91 | |||
| South Africa | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 63.63 | |||
| Sri Lanka | 26 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 59.61 | |||
| West Indies | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 47.36 | |||
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 66.67 | |||
| Associate Members | |||||||||
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | |||
| Total | 174 | 94 | 76 | 3 | 4 | 54.41 |
First T20I match wins:
| Opponent | Home | Away | ||
| Venue | Year | Venue | Year | |
| Afghanistan | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia | 2022 | YTP | YTP |
| Bangladesh | YTP | YTP | Mirpur Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh | 2014 |
| England | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia | 2007 | The Rose Bowl, Hampshire, England | 2013 |
| India | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia | 2008 | Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Assam, India | 2017 |
| Ireland | YTP | YTP | YTP | YTP |
| New Zealand | WACA Ground, Perth, Australia | 2007 | Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand | 2005 |
| Pakistan | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia | 2010 | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan | 2022 |
| South Africa | The Gabba, Brisbane, Australia | 2006 | Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa | 2011 |
| Sri Lanka | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia | 2017 | Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka | 2016 |
| United Arab Emirates | YTP | YTP | Tolerance Oval, Abu Dhabi, UAE | 2018 |
| West Indies | Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia | 2010 | Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia | 2010 |
| Zimbabwe | YTP | YTP | Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe | 2018 |
In an inning, the most runs from Australian Cricketers:
Two T20I innings totals have been highest. In February 2019, Afghanistan struck 278/3 in the 2nd T20I of the Ireland series in India. The Czech Republic national cricket team tied the record against Turkey in the 2019 Continental Cup with 278/4. Australia scored 263/3 against Sri Lanka in 2016.
| Rank | Score | Opposition | Venue | Date |
| 1 | 243/6 | New Zealand | Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand | 16 February 2018 |
| 2 | 221/5 | England | Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, England | 27 June 2018 |
| 3 | 219/7 | New Zealand | University Oval, Dunedin, New Zealand | 25 February 2021 |
| 4 | 214/6 | Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand | 28 February 2010 | |
| 5 | 209/6 | England | Rose Bowl, Southampton, England | 29 August 2013 |