Australian national cricket team

Australian national cricket team
Test status received	1877
First Test - Match	against England in Melbourne , March 1877
First ODI	against England in Melbourne , January 5, 1971
First T20I	against New Zealand in Auckland on February 17, 2005
captain	Tim Paine ( test ), Aaron Finch ( ODI , T20 )
Coach	Justin Langer
Official ICC test ranking	1 of 12
Official ICC ODI ranking	5 of 20
Official ICC T20I ranking	1 of 84
World Cup participation	11
First World Cup	1975
Best World Cup result	Winner (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015)
Champions Trophy participation	8th
First Champions Trophy	1998
Best Champions Trophy result	Winner (2006, 2009)
World Twenty20 participations	6th
First World Twenty20	2007
Best World Twenty20 result	Semi-finals (2007)
As of May 26, 2020

The Australian national cricket team is the national cricket team that represents Australia internationally. She is a full member of the International Cricket Council and therefore entitled to carry out tests against other full members. In the past, the team has won five Cricket World Cups and the ICC Champions Trophy twice .

history

Beginnings in the 19th century

The Australian team played their first ever test against the English team in 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Australia won with 45 runs. Since the trips between Australia and England took several weeks and the two teams were the only teams that played test matches at the time, the home team was considered the favorite. That only changed when Australia defeated the English team in the ninth test match of the two teams in August 1882 in the London Oval with 7 runs. This resulted in the Ashes series, which still exists today.

The 'Golden Age of Cricket'

The time between the 1890 season and the start of World War I in 1914 is often referred to as the golden age of cricket. In addition to England, which continued to be the main competitor of the Australians, New Zealand and South Africa were added as opponents from the late 19th century . The Ashes series were largely balanced and the batsman Victor Trumper was the star of the Australian team.

Between the world wars

After the end of the First World War , Australia succeeded in gaining suzerainty in the Ashes. In the three series between 1920 and 1925 they lost only one of the 15 tests played against the English team. From 1928 onwards, Donald Bradman entered the test cricket stage, who in his time until 1948 remained the statistically best batsman of all time to this day. This also played a major role in the so-called Bodyline Series 1932/33. Due to Bradman's dominance, the English were forced to develop new methods of obtaining wickets. Due to the Second World War, there was no Ashes series between 1938 and 1946 and so the Australians managed to keep the trophy in their possession for six series from 1934 to 1950.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War, the Australians succeeded again in building a dominance. Victories were not only achieved against England, but also against the new test nations India and New Zealand . In the 1950s there was an up and down for the Australians. After three Ashes series were lost in a row between 1953 and 1956, they were able to keep the trophy over six series between 1958 and 1968. In December 1960, the team was also involved in the first draw in Test history when they failed in the first Test against the West Indies to get the decisive run from the even score. The Australians were also able to shape the 1970s successfully for themselves. In the 1977 Centenary Test, a test was held in Melbourne to commemorate the first test a hundred years earlier. The Australians won this with the same result (45 runs) as they did a hundred years earlier.

Start of limited-overs cricket

From 1971, the Australian team not only competed in tests against other nations, but also in one-day internationals . At the first World Cup in 1975 , they finished second. There were major upheavals in Australia when the World Series Cricket wanted to establish itself as a competitor to international cricket in Australia between 1977 and 1979 in the course of disputes over television rights. Numerous innovations were introduced that can still be found in cricket today. A crisis followed in Australian cricket in the early 1980s. At the World Championships in 1979 and 1983 , the team was eliminated in the preliminary round and the Ashes series was lost between 1977 and 1986 in five of six events.

Beginning of a new dominance

Australia managed to get back up in 1987. The world championship was won for the first time in 1987 and the Ashes series was won continuously between 1989 and 2002. Except for the elimination in the preliminary round at the 1992 World Cup, winning the World Cup became a matter of course for the Australian team. After a second place in 1996 , the next three events in a row could be won. In the late 1990s, Australia was the dominant team in Test and ODI cricket. Players like Glenn McGrath , Shane Warne and Steve Waugh played a major role in this .

The new millennium

While the team dominated the World Cup with the help of Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting , from 2005 the dominance began to weaken. They lost the first Ashes series to England after almost 20 years . And even if the revenge succeeded in the 2006/07 event without defeat, England managed to work its way up to the Australians and even overtake them. So they lost a home series for the first time since 1986/87 at the Ashes 2010/11 . After winning three world championships ( 1999 , 2003 , 2007 ) and the Champions Trophies in 2006 and 2009 , they were eliminated in the quarter-finals in 2011 . At the home world championship in 2015 , they then won the title again. At the 2007 Twenty20 World Championships , Australia was far less dominant and did not get past the semi-finals. In 2018, the team was rocked by a ball tampering scandal that led to the removal of their captain Steve Smith . At the Cricket World Cup 2019 they qualified as the second best team in the preliminary round for the semifinals, but failed there with a clear defeat at the eventual world champion England.

Captains

Test match captains

So far, a total of 43 players have acted as captains for Australia in a test match.

No.	Surname	Period
1	Dave Gregory	1876-1879
2	Billy Murdoch	1880-1890
3	Tom Horan	1884-1885
4th	Hugh Massie	1884-1885
5	Jack Blackham	1884-1895
6th	Tup Scott	1886
7th	Percy McDonnell	1886-1888
8th	George Giffen	1894-1895
9	Harry Trott	1896-1898
10	Joe Darling	1899-1905
11	Hugh Trumble	1901-1902
12	Monty Noble	1903-1909
13	Clem Hill	1910-1912
14th	Syd Gregory	1912
15th	Warwick Armstrong	1920-1921
16	Herbie Collins	1921-1926
17th	Warren Bardsley	1926
18th	Jack Ryder	1928-1929
19th	Bill Woodfull	1930-1934
20th	Vic Richardson	1935-1936
21st	Don Bradman	1936-1948
22nd	Bill Brown	1945-1946
23	Lindsay Hassett	1949-1953
24	Arthur Morris	1951-1955
25th	Ian Johnson	1954-1957
26th	Ray Lindwall	1956-1957
27	Ian Craig	1957-1958
28	Richie Benaud	1958-1964
29	Neil Harvey	1961
30th	Bob Simpson	1964-1988
31	Brian Booth	1965-1966
32	Bill Lawry	1967-1971
33	Barry Jarman	1968
34	Ian Chappell	1970-1975
35	Greg Chappell	1975-1983
36	Graham Yallop	1978-1979
37	Kim Hughes	1978-1985
38	Allan Border	1984-1994
39	Mark Taylor	1994-1999
40	Steve Waugh	1998-2004
41	Adam Gilchrist	2000-2005
42	Ricky Ponting	2003-2010
43	Michael Clarke	2010-2015
44	Shane Watson	2013
45	Steve Smith	2015-2018
46	Tim Paine	2018 – today

Stages

See also : List of test cricket stadiums

The Australian team has so far used eleven stadiums on home soil for hosting friendly matches:

No.	Stadion	city	First use
1	Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)	Melbourne	March 15, 1877
2	Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)	Sydney	February 17, 1882
3	Adelaide oval	Adelaide	December 12, 1884
4th	Exhibition Ground (The Ekka)	Brisbane	November 30, 1928
5	Brisbane Cricket Ground (The Gabba)	Brisbane	November 27, 1931
6th	Western Australian Cricket Association Ground (The WACA)	Perth	December 11, 1970
7th	Bellerive oval	Hobart	December 16, 1989
8th	Marrara Stadium	Darwin	July 18, 2003
9	Bundaberg Rum Stadium (Cazaly's Stadium)	Cairns	July 25, 2003
10	Perth Stadium	Perth	December 14, 2018
11	Manuka oval	Canberra	1st February 2019

Balance sheet

The team has the following results against the other full members of the ICC in Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket ( as of August 1, 2020 ).

opponent	Testing					ODIs					Twenty20s
	Sp.	S.	U	N	N	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO
Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bangladesh	6th	5	0	1	0	21st	19th	0	1	1	4th	4th	0	0	0
England	351	146	0	110	95	149	82	2	62	3	16	9	0	6th	1
India	98	42	1	28	27	140	78	0	52	10	20th	8th	0	11	1
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	5	4th	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
New Zealand	60	34	0	8th	18th	138	92	0	39	7th	9	7th	1	1	0
Pakistan	66	33	0	15th	18th	104	68	1	32	3	23	9	1	12	1
Zimbabwe	3	3	0	0	0	30th	27	0	2	1	3	2	0	1	0
Sri Lanka	31	19th	0	4th	8th	97	61	0	32	4th	16	8th	0	8th	0
South Africa	98	52	0	26th	20th	103	48	3	51	1	21st	13	0	8th	0
West Indies	116	58	1	32	25th	140	74	3	60	3	11	5	0	6th	0

International tournaments

World cricket championship

• 1975 2nd place
• 1979 preliminary round
• 1983 preliminary round
• 1987 winner
• 1992 preliminary round
• 1996 2nd place
• 1999 winner
• 2003 winner
• 2007 winner
• 2011 quarter finals
• 2015 winner
• 2019 semifinals

Champions Trophy

• 1998 quarter-finals
• 2000 quarter-finals
• 2002 semi-finals
• 2004 semi-finals
• 2006 winner
• 2009 winner
• 2013 preliminary round
• 2017 preliminary round

World Twenty20

• 2007 semi-finals
• 2009 preliminary round
• 2010 2nd place
• 2012 semifinals
• 2014 Super 10
• 2016 Super 10

Web links

Commons : Australia national cricket team  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Williamson: Australia v England 1876-77 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
2. ↑ England in Australia Test Series - 1st Test ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
3. ↑ England v Australia 1882 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
4. ↑ Australia in England Test Match ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
5. ↑ David Frith: The golden age ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
6. ↑ A brief history of Bodyline ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
7. ↑ India in Australia Test Series, 1947/48 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
8. ↑ Australia in New Zealand Test Match, 1945/46 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
9. ^ First test, Australia v West Indies 1960–61 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
10. ↑ Australia v England 1976-77 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
11. ↑ The time period refers to the corresponding cricket season in which the first or last game of the time as captain took place
12. ↑ Records / Australia / Test Matches / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
13. ↑ Records / Australia / One-Day Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
14. ↑ Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.